In an email dated June 23, White House aide Kathleen Marshall, who works in its office of intergovernmental affairs, wrote to Coulter Minix in Beshear’s office that Chad Meredith was “to be nominated tomorrow” to the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. The subject line of the email read “Close hold,” and the body of the correspondence included a summary of Meredith’s resume.
Minix responded the same day, writing in part: “appreciate the heads up.”
On June 24, the Supreme Court rocked the nation by announcing its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate federal abortion rights. CNN reported this week that White House counsel Dana Remus had assured senior aides that the ruling would not come on that Friday, amid Democrats’ growing frustration about perceived lack of urgency from the Biden White House following the Roe decision.
He had nearly two months' advance notice, and not only did he not plan to do anything in response, he was planning this
"Not a good look" by Biden White House standards: nominating a Federalist Society anti-abortion lawyer to a federal judgeship as part of the world's most harebrained horse-trading scheme on the exact day Roe v. Wade gets overturned
Eh, don't worry about it: doing the same thing but it's two, three days beforehand, maybe even a whole week. Look the important thing is that there's no way on earth it'll be that specific Friday