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malaise

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Sat Aug 17, 2019, 05:06 PM Aug 2019

What's his politics DUers? Seems strange

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20190816/trump-nominates-jcan-law-professor-judicial-vacancy
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United States President Donald Trump has nominated a Jamaican law professor who previously worked as a prosecutor, defence attorney and journalist to fill the longest federal judiciary vacancy.

Trump nominated Richard E. Myers on Wednesday to be a trial judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina. The state’s two Republican senators recommended Myers for the job.

Raleigh lawyer Thomas Farr had been nominated to become a US District judge four times – twice by President George W. Bush and twice by Trump – but never received confirmation.

Civil rights groups had heavily criticised Farr for his work defending state voting and redistricting laws that judges had declared discriminated against black voters, as well as for his role as a campaign lawyer for then-Sen Jesse Helms. Last year, Farr’s elevation was stopped when two Republican senators from outside North Carolina announced their opposition to his nomination.

There’s been an eastern North Carolina judicial vacancy since January 2006, the longest in the country, according to a list from the US Administrative Office of the Courts. President Barack Obama nominated two black women for the judgeship during his tenure, but Republicans blocked both candidates.
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What's his politics DUers? Seems strange (Original Post) malaise Aug 2019 OP
all I can find ... Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2019 #1
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