Share Blue - Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is backing one of the most divisive and racist judges Trump has ever nominated for the federal bench. With this move, Collins is abandoning all pretenses of being a moderate and proving that she fully embraces the sordid Trump agenda.
Thomas Farr has engaged in a “lifetime crusade to disenfranchise African-Americans and deprive them of their rights,” Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP’s Washington bureau, told NBC News.
By supporting Farr’s nomination, Collins is standing with Trump and against the voting rights of millions of African-Americans.
As a North Carolina attorney, Farr played a key role in drafting a racist North Carolina voter ID law that, according to a federal appeals court, was written to disenfranchise black voters “with almost surgical precision.”
Farr also defended racially gerrymandered districts, which multiple courts struck down as illegal.
As far back as 1990, Farr was an attorney for the re-election campaign of notorious racist Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC). That year, the Helms campaign sent out 120,000 postcards to primarily black voters which were “intended to intimidate them from voting,” according to NBC News. Farr denies any knowledge of the activity.
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