Tim Scott baffles conservatives with about-faces on judges
by Quin Hillyer
| November 30, 2018 01:42 PM
Conservatives are tremendously vexed now by Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina.
A good politician knows not to stab his colleagues in the back. And, if on a rare occasion, he does find a truly compelling reason to change his mind after assuring colleagues and the public otherwise, he at least owes a full and cogent explanation for the change.
Scott has now reversed course twice, both times at the proverbial last minute, on whether or not to confirm judges nominated by President Trump. In both cases, critics wrongly said the nominees had troubling histories concerning racial matters. Scott, the Senate’s lone black Republican, seemed satisfied both times that the allegations were meritless, but then he switched gears and torpedoed the nominations anyway.
Yesterday he did so with regard to federal district court nominee Thomas Farr of North Carolina. Shortly before Scott announced his change of heart, I explained here yesterday that a 1991 memo effectively exonerated Farr of material involvement with an ill-advised postcard mailed to black voters by the 1990 re-election campaign of then-Sen. Jesse Helms. Indeed, the memo, backed by the testimony of others, showed that Farr advised against any postcard mailer related to “ballot security†that year.
The odd thing is that Scott said as much in an interview with Fox News’ Shannon Bream.
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