WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans are working to soon fill the nation’s longest judicial vacancy with a North Carolina lawyer whose nomination has raised objections from black lawmakers and civil rights groups. They’re concerned about the nominee’s work defending state laws found to have discriminated against African-Americans.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has helped push 84 of President Donald Trump’s nominees over the finish line and he’s itching for more.
He’s teed up a vote next week on the nomination of Thomas Farr to serve as a district court judge in North Carolina.
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Senators tend to save their biggest fights in the judicial arena for Supreme Court and appeals court nominees, but Farr’s nomination has proved an exception.
Farr has the backing of his home-state senators, both Republicans. But Democrats are overwhelmingly opposed.(backslash)
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