Political Quotes

“I rise today in opposition to the nomination of Thomas Farr to the Eastern District of North Carolina. Those who sit on the Federal bench are bound to uphold the Constitution for all Americans, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, or political leaning, but Mr. Farr cannot be trusted to defend equal justice under the law. Working to disenfranchise voters with a particular hostility toward African-American voters has been his lifelong passion. Consider his work for Jesse Helms' 1990 Senate campaign. We all know Helms' record on race. When the Justice Department brought a lawsuit against the Helms campaign for sending over 100,000 postcards to mostly African-American voters, falsely warning them that they were ineligible to vote and could be prosecuted for casting a ballot, it was Mr. Farr who defended the scheme. Yet, despite having served as the Helms' campaign attorney, Farr denied having any involvement with the postcards in his Senate questionnaire. Mr. Farr claimed he did not ``participate in any meetings in which the postcards were discussed before they were sent,'' but according to the former head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Gerald Hebert, ``the answers in [Farr's] questionnaire are contrary to the facts.'' Mr. Hebert took contemporaneous notes while investigating the Helms campaign--notes that place Mr. Farr at a meeting on the postcard scheme just 3 weeks before they were sent.…”