gop confirm a 39 year old bigot for a life time appointment on US court of appeals

[Demovictory9]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-court-pick-restrict-voting-rights_us_5b4f5bc7e4b0fd5c73c143c7

Senate Confirms Trump Court Pick With Record Of Attacking Voting Rights
More than 200 civil rights groups opposed Andrew Oldham, but every Republican voted to make him a lifetime federal judge


WASHINGTON ― The Senate voted on Wednesday to confirm another one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, Andrew Oldham, despite more than 200 civil rights groups opposing him over his record of trying to restrict voting and civil rights.

Every Republican voted to put Oldham, 39, into a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in New Orleans. Every Democrat opposed him. The final tally was 50-49.

Oldham, a former Texas deputy solicitor general who now serves as general counsel to Gov. Greg Abbott (R), in 2013 defended the state’s voter photo ID law, SB 14, which a federal judge later struck down as an “unconstitutional poll tax.” In his filing on behalf of the state, Oldham ripped the U.S. Justice Department’s civil rights division for refusing to preclear the law and argued that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act ― the heart of the historic federal civil rights law ― should be invalidated altogether.

In 2014, Oldham argued that housing discrimination cases should not be brought based on disparate impacts on minority communities. The Supreme Court rejected his argument, saying that the Fair Housing Act “must play a part in avoiding the… grim prophecy that ‘[o]ur Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.’”

[Freethinker65]

1. Expect many more lifetime appointments of like minded nominees in the next month

This is what the Conservative idealogs get for allowing Trump to do and say whatever the fuck he wants. The GOP and their donors are happy with this.