Congresswoman Adams Leads Effort Calling on Senate Leadership to Cancel Thomas Farr Nomination

Charlotte, NC– Today, Congresswoman Alma Adams (NC-12) released the following statement regarding the NC delegation letter calling on Senate leaders to cancel all votes related to Thomas Farr's judicial nomination. Representatives Butterfield and Price joined Rep. Adams in this request. The full text of the letter sent to Senate Majority Leader McConnell is attached.

"The appointment of Thomas Farr is appalling and an embarrassment to the American judiciary," said Congresswoman Adams. "Farr fails to meet the basic standards required of any judicial nominee. His track record demonstrates a strong bias against African-Americans. He helped draft and defend North Carolina's disastrous Voter ID laws that were ruled unconstitutional because they discriminated against African-Americans with surgical precision. We cannot allow this confirmation to move forward and that is why I led this delegation letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell demanding that all votes on Farr's nomination be cancelled. We will do everything within our power to protect our democracy and block this confirmation. Farr is by far a bad pick. "

President Trump nominated attorney Thomas Farr on July 13, 2017 to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Farr has a decades-long record of defending voter suppression tactics in North Carolina, including voter intimidation, discriminatory election changes, and racial gerrymandering. In 1992, as the lawyer for former Senator Jesse Helms' re-election campaign, he defended the campaign against U.S. Department of Justice complaints of voter intimidation after the campaign sent post cards to 100,000 black voters saying they were ineligible to vote and may be arrested for voting.