Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) called on the White House to drop President Joe Biden’s planned judicial nomination of Chad Meredith, an anti-abortion conservative, during a press briefing on Thursday.
Biden has some ‘splaining to do.
The governor’s office initially refused to turn over the messages when the Louisville Courier Journal requested them under the open records law. It’s unclear why Beshear changed his mind on releasing the emails.
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To the extent that this impacts our turnout in November. That’s MY red line about any of this
Beshear has not yet mentioned Meredith’s anti-abortion stance…
Rather, the governor has focused his criticism on Meredith’s involvement in former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s (R) controversial pardons while serving as the GOP governor’s deputy general counsel.
In a snake-handling, tall-hair, speaking-in-tongues state like KY, this is how a Dem threads the needle.
Biden almost always gets to the right positioning eventually. Whether it is the importance of voting rights legislation or the need for filibuster reform on things like protecting abortion access, he does eventually get there.
The problem is that he almost never actually starts there. He has to be dragged to the right place time and time again.
I fully expect that, under pushback, Biden will abandon this deal. But in the process of getting to the right place, he’ll have pissed off the base, further disheartened Democrats months before an election, looked clueless and out of touch due to the timing on the Roe repeal (which everyone knew was coming at some point this summer so was easily predictable) and, perhaps most importantly of all, at the end had nothing to show for it!
Alternatively, if he doesn’t abandon this plan, he’ll…have pissed off the base, further disheartened Democrats months before an election, looked clueless and out of touch due to the timing on the Roe repeal…and have rewarded and reinforced bad behavior by McConnell’s obstructionism therefore incentivizing him to do more of it.
This dude wouldn’t get through the Judiciary Committee would he?
If all Biden gets out of this is the ability to appoint US Attorneys in Kentucky without Moscow Mitch interfering, it should be no deal. He’s exchanging a lifetime appointment of an absolutely corrupt candidate for 30 months (maximum) of a few US Attorneys.
And that is true only if you believe Moscow Mitch will keep his end of the bargain. I don’t.
"Forty-eight hours after a horrific mass shooting on the Fourth of July, President Biden flew to Ohio on Wednesday for a speech on pension plans.
With inflation soaring and Democrats still fuming about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Mr. Biden’s public schedule included no events or announcements on either topic."
Does anyone still not understand why he shouldn’t run again?
Shameful that Biden is leaving the governor in this position. WTF Joe??
Biden was the right man for the moment when he ran against TFG. He is no longer the right man for this moment. Biden is from a different time and place and does things the way he’s been doing them for decades and decades. Time for someone younger with new ideas.
I like what Gavin Newsom has been doing with his more aggressive style. Whether he’s running for president I can’t say but I think what he’s doing is what Democrats need from their leaders.
I voted for him, would do so again if he ran, but I’ve got one foot on the Newsom train and think I will go full out before too long. He’d be perfect facing off against the guy from Florida who I believe will be nominated in 2020 but def trumpet will not be.
He was my mayor a long time ago, 2004-2011 and he was a stand out progressive even then.
Yeah, it’s not even a good deal. Moreover, this positions Meredith for SCOTUS when Thomas retires and there’s a GQP senate. It’s been said elsewhere that’s what this is all about. Biden seriously needs new advisors.
He can’t, that is why we hear nothing from him on this.
Nominee-select Meredith must be supremely corrupt if McConnell offered to forego all future challenges to Biden nominations to get him on the local bench. What’s on the horizon in Kentucky that requires installing a reliably corrupt federal judge?
“Senator Cortez Masto is opposed to anti-choice judicial nominees,” said Lauren Wodarski, a spokesperson for Cortez Masto. “With women’s reproductive rights under attack across the country, she has no intention of supporting such a nominee now. Should Mr. Meredith be nominated, she will vote against him.”
This is not hard. Why is it hard for Biden?
This version?
Doubt it
There’s too much dirt on him and that Beshear is concentrating on Meredith’s previous exploits says a lot.
Then who is the '24 nominee?
If HRC had twice won ('16 n '20), the next nominee is either Kaine or someone younger.
However, the choice between two codgers (going there) had to be played twice, because the leading three combined age was 150+.
So Joe was looking to pull one over on Mitch?
Sweet.
Don’t forget Biden’s role in the Clarence Thomas hearings when he was head of the Judiciary Committee. It seems he’s not adverse to throwing women’s issues under the bus if he thinks he’ll get a short time benefit out of it.
I voted for him. I don’t think he’s a bad man, but I do think he just doesn’t get certain things and that’s not improving. It takes a really bad reading of your constituency not to realize that such an appointment would be incendiary— especially after the release of the Alito draft and the response.