"If the president makes that nomination, it is indefensible,” he said. John Yarmuth, D-Louisville.Īt his press conference Thursday, Beshear said he hopes Biden has reconsidered, or “in the very least it's on pause." Bevin and more recently as solicitor general for Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron.īiden's intended nomination drew a firestorm of criticism from Democratic officials in Kentucky, including Beshear and U.S. The Courier Journal first broke the news Wednesday that Biden intended to nominate Meredith, a Federalist Society member who served as deputy counsel to former Republican Gov. The Courier Journal intends to appeal that decision. The governor's office denied those requests, saying the documents were "preliminary," and therefore exempt under Kentucky's open-records act. The Courier Journal filed open-records requests officially seeking the release of the email and corresponding communications between the governor's office and the White House. Although his office wouldn't disclose the date of that notification, The Courier Journal has established the email was sent June 23. She is a former lieutenant governor in Nevada who joined the White House last August as senior adviser to governors in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.īeshear has said he was told last week of Meredith's coming nomination. Marshall did not respond to a request for comment.
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