Scott Jennings, a Kentuckian and former adviser to President George W. Meredith’s father, Stephen Meredith, is a state senator in Kentucky. Meredith then worked for Kentucky Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who appointed him as the commonwealth’s first solicitor general in 2019. Meredith previously served as chief deputy general counsel to former Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear of his emergency power to implement COVID-19 restrictions. He also successfully defended a state law that stripped Kentucky Democratic Gov. Meredith, a well-known conservative in Kentucky, defended the state’s anti-abortion laws in court. The potential nomination drew resistance from Democrats from Kentucky to Washington. The plan, first revealed by The Courier Journal of Louisville, had languished for weeks. In another dig at Paul, McConnell told the Times that the Democratic president “would not have been taking a recommendation from Rand Paul, I can assure you.” McConnell’s office did not respond to Paul’s statement when contacted Monday evening.īiden had intended to nominate Meredith for a district court judgeship in eastern Kentucky. McConnell has insisted there was no deal over a Meredith nomination, pointing instead to his longstanding personal relationship with President Joe Biden. “Unfortunately, instead of communicating and lining up support for him, Senator McConnell chose to cut a secret deal with the White House that fell apart,” Paul said in a statement. Paul responded Monday that he supports Meredith and thought the conservative lawyer would make a good judge, but pointed to the process as the problem. McConnell told the newspaper that Paul’s position was “just utterly pointless.” McConnell, a key player in putting conservatives on the federal bench during Donald Trump’s presidency, told The New York Times last week that the White House intended to follow through on its commitment to nominate Meredith until Paul objected. The White House abruptly abandoned the nomination on Friday, pointing to the home-state resistance from Paul, who is seeking a third term in the U.S. Rand Paul on Monday accused Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of cutting “a secret deal with the White House that fell apart,” blaming a lack of communication by his fellow Kentuckian for the failure of a federal judicial nomination.įurther exposing long-simmering tensions between the state’s two Republican senators, Paul commented on his own role in sinking the nomination last week of anti-abortion lawyer Chad Meredith for a federal judgeship in Kentucky. Routh’s suit calls getting the overpayment back “clearly a civil matter,” and the criminal charges an abuse of the justice system.LOUISVILLE, Ky. It is the largest newspaper chain in the United States. That company’s operating subsidiary was Gatehouse Media until it acquired Gannett in 2019 and started operating under that name. 19 against Tranquill and CA NC Holdings Inc., the Delaware-registered subsidiary of New Media Investment Group. Routh filed suit in Alamance County Superior Court Aug. All of which caused him to move out of Randolph County. The suit calls those charges “facially invalid” and claims the information the defendants provided to police was false and “resulted in false unsubstantiated and fabricated criminal charges.” As a result Routh lost his job, has had difficulty finding another one, and claims to have suffered harassment by the defendants and law enforcement, as well as anxiety, mental distress, embarrassment and humiliation. On July 29, Routh learned he had been charged with felony larceny in Randolph County. “These attempts were met with what can only be described as a contemptuous rebuke,” the suit reads. But, according to the suit, the company did not accept the payment. On July 27, Routh wrote a check for what he had left of the overpayment along with some of his personal funds to his lawyer in Graham, Hunt Johnson, so Johnson could arrange a partial repayment to the company. He calls it a good-faith mistake, but the Asheboro Police contacted him on July 14 also demanding the return of the money and told him he could face felony charges if he did not. He believed the deposit was a “long-awaited and promised lump sum settlement,” and he spent an undisclosed amount of that money paying debts and “other obligations” and as gifts to friends and family. Routh is also the plaintiff in a medical malpractice suit over allegedly faulty equipment used in a hernia operation and three other class-action lawsuits, according to his suit against the newspaper company.

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