Schumer flips Supreme Court discrimination ruling 180 degrees to attack Justice Roberts

Published November 26, 2018 10:16pm ET



Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday accused Chief Justice John Roberts of deciding in 2013 that voting discrimination against blacks no longer exists, even though Roberts wrote explicitly at the time that it “still exists.”

The Democratic New York lawmaker was on the Senate floor speaking against Thomas Farr, a North Carolina lawyer who is President Trump’s pick to be a district court judge in his home state.

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