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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsnew federal judge for life: 39 year old who repeatedly weakened voting rights
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-judge-voting-rights-eric-murphy_n_5c816e77e4b0e62f69eb055aSenate Confirms Trump Court Pick Who Repeatedly Weakened Voting Rights
Every Republican voted to make Eric Murphy, 39, a lifetime federal judge.
WASHINGTON ― The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Eric Murphy to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, meaning a 39-year-old lawyer who repeatedly led efforts to make it harder for people to vote will now be a lifetime federal judge.
Murphy, who has been the solicitor general of Ohio since 2013, was confirmed 52-46. Every Republican voted for him. Every Democrat voted against him. Two senators, Doug Jones (D-Ala.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.), did not vote.
Democrats criticized Murphys nomination for several reasons. He argued in 2015 that same-sex marriage would be disruptive to our constitutional democracy in a brief he filed in the Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality case before the Supreme Court. In 2014, he argued against womens access to contraception in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby.
But Murphy is perhaps best known for defending Ohios notorious voter purge law before the Supreme Court in 2018, arguing that the state should be able to drop people from its voter rolls if they dont vote for six years and dont respond to a postcard asking them to confirm their address. The court upheld the law in a contentious 5-4 decision, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing in her dissent that the law will disproportionately make it harder for minority, low-income, disabled, homeless, and veteran voters to cast a ballot.
That same year, Murphy argued in favor of upholding the so-called perfection requirement, allowing Ohio to discard ballots because of minor clerical errors.
In 2014, Murphy defended the elimination of Ohios Golden Week, a five-day period in which voters could register and vote at the same time. The state created the period in response to the 2004 election, when many Ohio voters were forced to wait in line for up to 12 hours to vote. The 6th Circuit ruled in favor of getting rid of the period, but Judge Jane Stranch wrote in her dissent that it would impose a disproportionate burden on African Americans and was linked to social and historical conditions of discrimination that diminish the ability of African Americans to participate in the political process.
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new federal judge for life: 39 year old who repeatedly weakened voting rights (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Mar 2019
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SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)1. Ug. Didn't they just confirm a 37-year-old anti-LGBTQ judge?
dsc
(52,166 posts)2. no they succeeded in confirming a 37 year old anti LGBTQ judge
SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)3. Why "No"? You just confirmed what I said.