Thomas Farr update

He may never even get a final vote.

[Tim Scott, R-SC] will oppose Thomas Farr to be a District Court judge, effectively killing the nomination on the Senate floor. It's the second judge the Senate's lone African-American GOP senator has tanked this year over their views and actions on race.

In a statement on Thursday afternoon, Scott cited "lingering concerns about issues that could affect [Farr's] decision-making process as a federal judge" in opposing Farr. It was a reference to Farr's alleged connection to former Sen. Jesse Helms' intimidation campaigns against black voters.

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After voting to advance Farr's nomination on Wednesday, Scott, Rubio and Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) began re-examining the nomination following the Washington Post's publication of a Justice Department memo detailing Farr's connection to Helms's campaigns. Helms’ campaign sent postcards targeting African-American voters that suggested they were not eligible to vote. Farr was a lawyer for the campaign at the time.

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Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) also opposed the nomination, though it was part of his stand against all judicial nominees in order to force a vote on a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller. And all Democrats came out early against the nomination, as they were trying desperately to sway Scott and other squeamish Republicans to block Farr's lifetime appointment over his voting rights record.

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Rubio and Collins had already endorsed Farr earlier in the week, but there were signs that his nomination was in jeopardy earlier Thursday, when the Senate delayed a final vote on the judge to next week. In addition to Scott, Murkowski and Collins said that they were undecided Thursday, even after Murkowski's office said she did not intend to block the nominee.

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All three senators voted to move forward with the nomination Wednesday during a procedural vote. But Scott showed signs of hesitation, voting an hour after the scheduled time and sounding increasingly dour in his comments.

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"The Senate does not have the votes to confirm Farr, and hopefully it never will," said Derrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP. "He should never be confirmed."

Donald Trump and Rod Rosenstein Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) office referred questions about whether the vote on Farr will still occur next week to the White House, which did not immediately comment.

  Politico

I'm guessing Mitch will not bring it to a vote if he knows he doesn't have enough to win.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.