Civil rights groups and the Congressional Black Caucus have been trying to sink Farr’s nomination for nearly a year. The 64-year-old attorney wrote North Carolina’s extreme voter ID law in 2013, which was later struck down by a federal appeals court. The court found the law targeted black people “with almost surgical precision.” Farr also defended the state’s racially discriminatory gerrymandering in federal court in 2015 (and lost), and he may have lied to the Senate about his role in disenfranchising tens of thousands of black voters when he worked for the late Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) in 1990.
You just listed three good, solid reasons to support Judge Farr.
IOW, he’s *controversial* because he’s holding people accountable and responsible.
Got it.
Yeah, all three of those things are false. He didn’t write the law, he didn’t even CONSULT with the senate where that billw as written, he CONSULTED with the house that passed an unremarkable bill.
He also didn’t lie to the senate, they had some e-mail from some party hack, but it was about some entirely different effort than the one they asked him about.
He did defend the gerrymander, as he was the lawyer responsible for that, but nobody knew it was illegal until the court ruled that way; the previous court had ruled for it, and all gerrymandering is supposed to be racially biased, it’s how we guarantee that at leeast one district has a majority of black people in it so they can vote for a black person, since apparently blacks are the only epople who will vote for black people, and are expected to vote based on the color of their skin rather than what a politician will actually do.