Voter Purge Defender Confirmed to Court on Selma Anniversary (2)

Ohio Solicitor and former Jones Day associate Eric Murphy on Thursday became the 34th Donald Trump appellate nominee to win U.S. Senate confirmation.

Murphy was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 52 to 46.

Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio criticized Murphy as an opponent of voting rights, noting that he was being confirmed on the 54th anniversary of the attack on civil rights protesters during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.

Murphy successfully defended his state’s process for purging inactive voters from its voting rolls, in 2018’s Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute ...