GOP senator's opposition kills Farr judicial nomination
WASHINGTON — Sen. Tim Scott announced Thursday that he would oppose the nomination of President Donald Trump’s judicial pick Thomas Farr, ending a bitter confirmation fight centered on questions over how much Farr knew about a decades-old effort to disenfranchise black voters in North Carolina.The decision from Scott, the Senate’s sole black Republican, came after the publication of a Justice Department memo in The Washington Post that Scott said raised concerns about […]
