Trump judicial nominee for NC court clears hurdle after Pence breaks tie
WASHINGTON — One of President Donald Trump’s nominees has cleared an important hurdle to filling the nation’s longest judicial vacancy, but it took a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence. Democratic lawmakers, urged on by the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus, have been fighting Thomas Farr’s confirmation to serve as a district court judge in North Carolina. The seat Farr would fill has been vacant since 2005.Democrats say that Farr, as an […]