'Deal with the devil.' Secret Biden-McConnell deal on anti-abortion GOP judge enrages Democrats
Joe Sonka and Andrew Wolfson
Fri, July 1, 2022 at 3:15 AM
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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
46th president of the United States since 2021

Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
American politician

John Yarmuth
John Yarmuth
American politician

Andy Beshear
63rd governor of Kentucky

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Democrats are blasting President Joe Biden for agreeing to nominate an anti-abortion Republican to a lifetime federal judgeship in Kentucky, less than a week after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

"The president is making a deal with the devil and once again" and "the people of Kentucky are crushed in the process," Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker tweeted after The Courier Journal broke the story Wednesday night.

"At a time when we are fighting to protect human rights, this is a complete slap in the face."

Chad Meredith
Chad Meredith
U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Louisville, who confirmed Biden is poised to nominate Chad Meredith to U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, called it a "huge mistake."

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"Why you would pick him to fill a federal vacancy when you're a Democratic president is beyond me."

Yarmuth said the nomination is bad not only because Meredith is anti-abortion but because of his actions in the general counsel office when he helped former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin issue hundreds of controversial pardons at the end of his term that spurred outrage and a federal investigation.

Gov. Andy Beshear, said Thursday he also strongly opposes the pick, saying his team was informed last week that Biden intended to nominate Meredith.

Beshear said his understanding is that Biden has not yet submitted the nomination, “which I hope means in the very least it's on pause.

“If the president makes that nomination, it is indefensible.”

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Biden was poised to nominate Meredith presumably as the result of an undisclosed deal with U.S. Mitch McConnell, Yarmuth told The Courier Journal.

McConnell has blocked the nominations of two lawyers for U.S. attorney positions there were recommended by Yarmuth. The presumption is that with Meredith's nomination, McConnell would agree not to hold up future federal nominations from the Biden White house, Yarmuth said.




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