The above is a headline from the Louisville Courier-Journal. Here is some of the dung inside this shit sandwich of a deal that Biden cut with Mitch McConnell. Yes, Biden cut a deal with Mitch McConnell. Biden will nominate an anti-choice Federalist lawyer to be a federal judge, and Moscow Mitch promises to not block Biden’s other federal nominees.
And this is going over like a geyser of shit in Kentucky.
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."
"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.
Meredith worked with corrupt Republican Trump Mini-Me Matt Bevin on his pardons!
Not only is Yarmuth furious about this deal, Govenor Andy Beshear is screaming his lungs out about it, along with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker.
A GOP candidate in exchange for no more blocked nominees?
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.
"We were informed by White House staff that this nomination was coming," Yarmuth said. "I expressed my objections to it in the strongest terms I use."
And Yarmuth has been a defender of President Biden, and he is no bomb thrower.
Beshear is aghast at the corruption that Meredith was involved in with those pay for play pardons that Matt Bevin handed out when he left office.
Beshear said Meredith should be disqualified from a nomination for his work on Bevin's controversial pardons and commutations, saying Meredith “aided and advised on the most egregious abuse of power by a governor in my lifetime.”
The Courier Journal reported in 2020 that Meredith was one of the staff attorneys involved in string of controversial acts of clemency Bevin doled out at the end of his term in 2019.
Bevin administration documents showed Meredith was one of Bevin's general counsel staff to give recommendations to the governor on whether certain applicants deserve clemency.
One spreadsheet of clemency applicants from those records showed "Chad working" written next to the name of Patrick Baker — one of the most controversial pardon recipients, who was convicted of killing a man in a robbery and whose family hosted a fundraiser for Bevin at his home
That “Chad” is Chad Meredith. What has turned out is that some of the worst convicts who had some money paid to get pardons. Some of the others Bevin pardoned were for a man who sodomized an unconscious teenager with a dildo so badly that the boy’s colon was perforated. The criminal who did this posted what he did online. And this was all done at a party with others present.
I’m sorry folks, but oh hell fucking no on this deal of Biden’s!