White House Privately Signaling It's Moving Forward With Anti-Abortion Court Pick

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chad-meredith-judicial-nominee-abortion-biden_n_62cc82d9e4b0451684664530?mt8

President Joe Biden is not backing off plans to nominate an anti-abortion attorney to a lifetime federal judgeship in Kentucky, despite strong opposition from Democrats and reproductive rights groups, according to a source recently briefed on the White House’s plans.

White House officials have refused to talk about Chad Meredith ever since the Louisville Courier-Journal reported late last month that he is the president’s pick for a soon-to-be vacant U.S. District Court seat in eastern Kentucky. The newspaper even provided copies of June 23 emails from the White House to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) confirming Biden’s plan to nominate Meredith, a member of the conservative Federalist Society who has fought abortion rights.

The White House initially told Beshear that Meredith would be nominated the next day, on June 24. But that turned out to be the day the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and the nomination didn’t happen. Now it’s just crickets.

“I’m just not ― we just don’t comment on ― on vacancies, whether executive branch or judicial, in situations where we have not made a nomination,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Wednesday, when asked about Meredith. “We just have not made a nomination on this yet.”

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[David__77]

1. Wow that's terrible politics.

…

[LexVegas]

2. Why?

[Jose Garcia]

28. It is a deal with McConnell to not block the nomination of a US Attorney in KY

[temporary311]

33. So we're trading a

2 to 6 year appointment for a lifetime one? Hope thats not all of it.

[Rebl2]

3. What a monumental mistake

[Faux pas]

4. Yikes!

That's effing nuts.

[empedocles]

5. Could it have been a 'log-rolling' deal with mcconnell?

[Rebl2]

6. Not sure

what you mean by log-rolling, but I wondered if he made some kind of deal with McConnell. Terrible mistake.

[CrispyQ]

7. A tent so big anyone can get in.

WTF?

[MagickMuffin]

8. The optics don't look good

Was going to nominate him the day Roe v Wade was struck down. Federalist Judges are why we can't have democracy!


Reconsider President Biden. Whatever Mitch promised he will not follow through. He is a known and proven liar.

[OLDMDDEM]

9. Bad, bad decision.

I have been a big supporter of Biden, but if he keeps this up, my mind will change. Mitch is playing him for a sucker.

[CTyankee]

10. This is terrible. I cannot accept this.

It is against everything I've marched for, everything I have supported. To see this soul crushing report, which I fervently wish to be untrue, breaks my heart again, after the soul crushing Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

WHY?

[DLevine]

11. Big mistake. Hope he changes his mind. nt

[snowybirdie]

12. Seems to me

there are anti democrat agitators ginning up this story to separate us again. I trust OUR President to practice politics that will ultimately benefit our agenda. Remember the pure is the enemy of the good.

[NYC Liberal]

17. Not wanting an anti-choice judge on the bench for life isn't a purity issue.

Something like — as an hypothetical example — not supporting a candidate because they’re perfect on all the issues except that they want a $13 minimum wage instead of $15 would be a “purity” issue.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. A Democrat unhappy with what a Democrat is doing is not an anti-Democrat agitator.

Remember the pure is the enemy of the good.

And anti-abortion judge is the enemy of human rights.

[SMC22307]

23. LOL Get back to us when this Federalist Society RWNJ worms his way on to the SCOTUS.

Explain how an anti-choice nutjob appointed by a DEMOCRATIC president will "ultimately benefit our agenda."

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. This is so ugly.

[aocommunalpunch]

14. They can't claim ignorance.

They're being told way in advance this is a shit idea. Gonna have to lie in that bed, if you make it. Back away quickly.

[kimbutgar]

15. Maybe it was the deal for the weak gun control lawyers negotiated with turtle.

The old days of the senate things were done though these type of horse trades.

Perhaps this is why turtle said he’d paralyze the senate if he didn’t get his way.

[CrispyQ]

16. Write to your senators people & tell them to oppose this nomination.

I wrote yesterday & will write again this week.

[Fiendish Thingy]

19. I heard that we're supposed to shut up and accept whatever Biden does

Otherwise, we might lose in November.

No, really, I heard that.

Meanwhile, half of Republicans are ready to ditch Trump.

[SMC22307]

20. Must be like the zillionth-degree chess we heard so much about...

during the Obama administration. Bets as to when this anti-choice RWNJ will be nominated to the Supreme Court? Thomas and Alito won't live forever.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. "He can't be that bad; he was a Biden pick!"

[SMC22307]

29. Wonder who he'll replace someday -- Alito? Thomas?

Good times.

[Hortensis]

22. KYs a red state and also McConnell's. Biden CAN'T get a pro-abortionist there.

In red states, Democratic choices usually, in most areas virtually always, come down to trying to choose the best of a list of sometimes-responsible-to-unhinged-extremist conservative possibilities.

We'll be seeing a lot of this because we've filled virtually all blue-state judicial openings first and now are left with negotiating with Republicans in Republican states where the big powers are conservative.

Don't be fooled by anti-Biden spin into imagining he's happy appointing conservatives who'll screw over women. (And take and remember names! WHO's pushing this?) Biden just explained that if we elect 2 more Democratic senators and hold the house this fall he'll be able to restore a national right to abortion.

It is DOABLE! But the voters must do their part.

[SMC22307]

34. Why do we keep saying "2 more"? Why are we settling for two?

Mark Kelly, Raphael Warnock, Catherine Cortez Masto, and Maggie Hassan need to hold on. And Fetterman, Ryan, Beasley, Demings, and Barnes need to win. We must expand to a more comfortable margin.

[ripcord]

24. I thought we had to back Biden at this point

And shut up about the things we don't agree with, did I get the wrong memo?

[Sky Jewels]

32. Oh, so you'd prefer Trump then?!?!?!

[Solly Mack]

25. Well

[Autumn]

26. This is a big mistake.

[Beachnutt]

27. And the turtle said just yesterday that he plans to

stonewall everything the Democrats try to do.
Screw that piece of sorry flesh.
President Biden please don't deal with this scumbag.

https://mobile.twitter.com/McConnellPress/status/1546599775683989506?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[Sky Jewels]

30. WTF

Read the room, White House.

JFC

[Hotler]

31. Fuck it......

you to wash and wax her car.

[sarcasmo]

35. We can't have nice things, UGH.

[duckworth969]

36. Say it ain't so Joe

What a terrible, terrible idea.

Backroom politics, shady shit.

If B trusts that snake at all, he’s a fool for doing so.

[demmiblue]

37. Jesus H. Christ on a trailer hitch.

This is appalling.

[Elessar Zappa]

38. This is a mistake and a bad one, but

I won’t abandon Biden after one bad decision.