Democratic lawmakers and pro-choice activists are pleading with President Joe Biden to reconsider the White House’s plans to appoint a conservative Republican judge to a federal court seat in Kentucky.
In other abortion-related news this week, a judge temporarily halted Kentucky’s trigger law, which outlawed abortion, and the attorney general’s attempt to appeal the decision was rejected by the Kentucky Supreme Court.
On the political front, this week’s newsletter also includes a summary of the funds raised by each candidate for governor and other statewide offices in the most recent quarter and a look behind the scenes of the unidentified organization that flooded GOP state House primary races with attack ads in May.
Beshear deems the nomination to be “indefensible.”
Over the previous week, a lot has occurred.
At his news conference last week, Gov. Andy Beshear joined Rep. John Yarmuth in forcefully denouncing the decision as “indefensible” and urging Biden to rethink his position in response to a report in The Courier-Journal about the nomination of Chad Meredith.
The court opening for a potential Meredith nomination was made public the following morning, and subsequent reports revealed a White House email to the governor announcing Meredith’s nomination came the same day the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade.
Beshear’s office refused to give the Meredith information to us despite a subsequent White House email attempting to emphasize that it was “pre-decisional and privileged.”
So, will Biden actually renege on his nomination, or is the alleged agreement with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell worth all the criticism from Democrats? Follow this space.
The abortion ban is currently on hold.
A Jefferson Circuit judge granted their plea for a temporary order to stop the trigger statute after the Supreme Court decides to reverse Roe v. Wade and temporarily shuttered Kentucky abortion clinics.
Although the Kentucky Court of Appeals and Kentucky Supreme Court rejected Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s several attempts to challenge the order, there may be a more definitive resolution to the action in the Jefferson Circuit very soon.
Reporter Debby Yetter, a must-follow on this subject last week, this week, and every week, offers a summary of the several Kentucky abortion laws that are presently entangled in litigation and where they stand.
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Quarles outraises the competition for the GOP.
In the 2023 contest for governor, Republican challengers Ryan Quarles, Kentucky’s agriculture commissioner, and state representative Savannah Maddox are trailing in early fundraising.
On the Democratic side, Beshear continued to raise more than $1 million each quarter, bringing his overall collection since last summer to around $3.5 million.
Here’s our in-depth analysis of all the quarterly campaign finance reports turned in on Tuesday for statewide candidates running in 2022, including one Republican attorney general candidate who raised an outstanding sum that might fend off serious opposition.
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Remember the ambiguous organization that ran attack commercials during the GOP state House primary in May without declaring any of its representatives or registering with Kentucky’s election finance commission?
The good news is that we have now identified a representative of Commonwealth Conservatives LLC, an Ohio individual who also happens to be connected to a dark money network that has recently spent millions of dollars on advertising during GOP primaries.
Here is our investigation into the shadowy money network that has for years evaded the scrutiny of election watchdogs and government ethics investigators.
