Several Senate Democrats said they would vote against the confirmation of a conservative, anti-abortion federal judge nominee if President Joe Biden follows through with a purported deal with Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
– a White House official informed Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's office in an email June 23 that it planned to nominate Meredith to a U.S. District Court judgeship in Kentucky's Eastern District the next day.
McConnell has refused to comment until Biden officially submits a nominee, but his camp has dismissed talk of a deal as"false information."Sen. Dick Durbin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he spoke to the White House about the possible judicial nomination of Chad Meredith last week and that he"wouldn't be my choice for judge."
“From what I've read, I would have some concerns with that nominee,” said Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. “I don't know the individual person, so this is based on what I'm reading. But I do not think this is the kind of person that a Democratic majority should put on bench based on what I'm reading.” Meredith's name, and U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky.
Rosen's Democratic Senate colleague in Nevada, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, said through a spokeswoman that she also would not support Meredith's nomination.
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