so talked about thomas farr misleading the committee. if he doesn't get another hearing, if that's not taken seriously that under oath a nominee is not answering questions accurately, that also under mines the whole process. why are people going through this questioning if they don't have to answer honestly? why do they feel out the senate questionnaire if it tells you to disclose potential conflicts of interest and you get away with it if you don't? so there is also these -- this vetting process that's being undermined as well as all the blue slip concerns that it is just going to diminish the power of this committee and the whole senate. >> and it also says something about what this person's capacity would be like in a courtroom where witnesses take an oath and you expect them to be truthful. p- a and you expect judges and juries to weigh the truthfulness. where you have a judge showing lack of truth, i think there is reason to have little confidence that person could carry out their abilities as a judge in a federal courtroom. >> do y

and they have now been replaced by the likes of thomas farr. thomas farr is somebody who really has dedicated his career to defending and promoting voter suppression in the state of north carolina. he was the judge who defended the state's monster voter suppression law that the court of apeels found to discriminate against minority voters with almost surgical precision. he's defended the state in racial jerrymandering cases, on the wrong side. he's somebody who has defended an employer who said that women with children didn't have a place in the workplace. we at the lawyers committee litigated a case against thomas a car case involving dealership that discriminated against african-americans. at every stage of thomas farr's career, he has been someone who has been deeply opposed to civil rights. but when it comes to voting rights in particular, the level of hostility and recalcitrant -- ecals trance has been -- recalcitrance has been especially pronounced. jen: do you want to mention his relationship with jesse helms? kristen: right. he was lawy

we have danny thomas, jamie farr. we were these great comedic figures.d nothing more and so that was something i was really concerned about shifting and giving arabs the opportunity to be seen on screen as something other than a taxi driver or terrorist. but also being a person of colour is a challenge and arab is considered a person of colour, so you have to break through that barrier. but... i was going to say, couldn't it be an advantage? 0ne arab actor said recently that when he complained about being depicted as a terrorist and saying that this was racial profiling he was told, you're lucky and you can use your ethnicity as a play card in an industry in which white actors are overlooked. that's an obscene comment, that people even consider that being a minority in hollywood is a good thing. it's not. we are still completely outnumbered. but you do quite well. it's notjust...| mean 0mar sharif, the late 0mar sharif, there's selma hayek, who's got arab heritage, there's wendie malick, tony shalhoub, rami malek won an emmy for the thriller mr robot. th

thomas fire to come through out of north carolina almost make it to the federal bench, who is a known nazi sympathizer and also ist who is beenac behind every voter suppression act and north carolina. farroabout thomas you also wrote about. >> i would to step back because i'm try to work on -- i think we are too trump-y. farro pointed out, thomas would have never got to the judiciary if it wasn't for citizen richard burr and senator tillis from our state -- by the way, he was the architect of the voter suppression when he was bigger of the house, who denied to do black women -- to black women and a federal prosecutor -- they denied them even getting a hearing. they didn't even allow them to get a hearing and then once trump gets in, they pushed forward -- so we can't just lay this reality of what we're seeing at the feet of trump. diesels a symptom of a -- if he was gone tomorrow or impeached tomorrow, the senate and house of representatives and ryan a mcconnell and graham and all of them would still be there. what we have found, amy, will we look at them, no matter how crazy they called him or names they called him were angry they get with him, it is all a front because at the end of t