Source: Brian Murphy, NEWS & OBSERVER, 8/14/19


President Donald Trump nominated UNC-Chapel Hill law professor Richard E. Myers on Wednesday to fill the longest federal judicial vacancy in the county. Trump had twice nominated Raleigh lawyer Thomas Farr to be a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. But Farr never received a full vote in the Senate. His nomination was doomed after Sen. Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican and the lone black Republican...

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