REV. DR. WILLIAM BARBER: Here's the story, real quick. Thomas Farr is connected to white nationalism, connected to Jesse Helms. He has been at the forefront of every racist voter suppression law that has been pushed in this state the last 25 years, and he has lost. The two senators from North Carolina blocked two black women -- one a Supreme Court justice, the other one who worked for the Justice Department for Republicans and Democrats -- blocked two black women, would not allow them to even get a hearing that they might hold this spot open for him. It's the longest vacancy in the federal courts. They want to put him in Eastern North Carolina that has the largest number of African Americans. They want to reward him for his racism.
He has pushed policies that were called surgical racism by the courts, the highest courts in this land. And the reward to this man is they want to put him on the Supreme Court. McConnell has scheduled a vote for him. We need all Democrats, we need Republicans of conscience, to stand against this appointment. It is a travesty how they got him there by stepping on the backs of women, how they got him there by overlooking his racist history, and how he is being promoted for pushing laws that violated our Constitution. And now they want to put him as a judge to interpret the Constitution. This is wrong in so many ways, and we must stop it.
AMY GOODMAN: Reverend Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign and president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach. Thank you so much for joining us from Raleigh. Just back from Mississippi, where President Trump is headed today to shore up Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in two campaign rallies in Tupelo and Biloxi. Coming up, the Trump administration attempts to bury an alarming report that directly contradicts the President's denial of climate change. Stay with us.
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