FLASHBACK: Dem senate candidate was critical vote in confirming judge who tied voter ID to 'White supremacy'
As the debate on voter ID and the SAVE America Act rages on in the Senate, a former Democratic senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown, is facing heat from his political...
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As the debate on voter ID and the SAVE America Act rages on in the Senate, a former Democratic senator from Ohio , Sherrod Brown, is facing heat from his political opponents as he runs to return to the Senate over his votes and positions on the election integrity issue. "You know, it’s inconsistent to denounce White supremacy but not repudiate voter ID laws, to not repudiate the Muslim ban, to not repudiate ‘the wall,’" Natasha Merle, then nominee for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, said during a 2017 podcast, Fox News Digital reported during her confirmation process in 2022. "These are all things that support and are grounded in White supremacy. The voter ID bills disproportionately impact Black and Brown voters. They disproportionately prevent Black and Latino voters from voting. So you cannot say you are not for White supremacy and at the same time be for disenfranchising Black and Latino voters." Additionally, Merle appeared to compare today's voter ID laws to "dogs and whips" being used to control minority populations in a 2020 speech to college students on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. SHERROD BROWN PITCHES HIMSELF AS BLUE-COLLAR POPULIST WHILE RAKING IN CASH FROM HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES "We cannot lose sight of states such as Alabama, Texas, Florida that have created new barriers to make voting harder, including by eliminating early voting, passing restrictive voter ID laws, and purging legal voters from their rolls — all of this happening with the implicit and sometimes explicit support of the Justice Department," Merle said. Despite these comments, Merle was confirmed as a federal judge in 2023 by a 1-vote margin with the support of then-Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who is currently running a campaign to return to the Senate after losing his seat in 2024, and no Republican support. "That's a shocking, radical point of view," Ohio GOP incumbent Sen. Jon Husted, who Brown is trying to unseat, told Fox News Digital about Merle…