President Joe Biden on Friday abandoned his decision to nominate an anti-abortion attorney to the federal bench in Kentucky, which had angered his own party and caused weeks of pushback. But the details of the arrangement—and the reason why Biden changed his mind—are sure to cause even more fury on the left.
Biden’s nomination of Chad Meredith, a conservative lawyer in the mold of Justice Clarence Thomas, was a source of consternation and ire for fellow Democrats. Meredith, known as an aggressive opponent of abortion, had defended an anti-abortion law and the denial of a license to perform abortions to a Planned Parenthood clinic when he was serving as counsel to the previous governor of Kentucky, Republican Matt Bevin. As the Supreme Court was preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade and abortion rights in dozens of state were under the gravest attack in half a century, why was the Democratic president planning to give an anti-abortion lawyer a lifetime appointment to the federal bench?
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