Source: Matthew Burns, WRAL, 7/13/17

President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated Raleigh attorney Thomas Farr, who has defended various voting maps in North Carolina drawn by the Republican-led General Assembly, to a vacancy on the federal bench.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Farr would fill a seat in the federal Eastern District of North Carolina that has been open for almost 12 years, when Judge Malcolm Howard took senior status, a form of semi-retirement accorded federal judges.

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