A judgeship for a two U.S. attorney appointments????? Am I missing something?

[In It to Win It]

President Joe Biden struck a deal with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to nominate Chad Meredith, a Republican anti-abortion advocate, to a federal judgeship on the Eastern District of Kentucky, Slate has confirmed. Under the arrangement, Meredith would take the seat currently occupied by Judge Karen Kaye Caldwell, a George W. Bush nominee. Caldwell submitted her move to senior status on June 22, which, once complete, will allow Meredith to take the seat. A lawyer with connections to the Kentucky governor’s office who is familiar with the agreement told Slate that Caldwell conditioned her move upon the confirmation a successor—specifically, the conservative Meredith. In exchange, McConnell will allow Biden to nominate and confirm two U.S. Attorneys to Kentucky.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. Are they are going to pursue a federal investigation into McConnell, might be worth it...

temporary though....wtf.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. The Deripaska aluminum deal would be a good place to start.

US Senate report says Russian investor in Braidy Industries' mill is a proxy for the Kremlin

Morgan Watkins
Louisville Courier Journal, August 19, 2020

A Russian company that has invested in Braidy Industries' planned aluminum rolling mill in Eastern Kentucky was identified as a proxy of the Kremlin in a new report the Senate Intelligence Committee released this week.

The Russian firm, United Co. Rusal, agreed last year to invest $200 million in the mill, which is expected to create hundreds of long-term jobs in a struggling region of the state if Braidy is able to raise enough financing to build the facility, which will cost well over $1.5 billion.

The Republican-led Senate committee released a report Tuesday that detailed extensive connections between President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign advisers and people with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime.

And it points to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska — a part-owner of Rusal, which is a major aluminum company that operates internationally — as a key figure.

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The U.S. Senate voted down a measure opposing the plan to end the sanctions against Rusal and EN+ Group in January 2019. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, as well as Sen. Rand Paul, both Kentucky Republicans, voted against that attempt to keep the sanctions in place.

The Kentucky Democratic Party on Wednesday questioned McConnell's decision to support lifting the sanctions on Rusal, in light of the Senate Intelligence Committee report's identification of Rusal as a proxy for the Kremlin.

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https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2020/08/19/senate-report-russian-investor-braidy-mill-kremlin-proxy/5607217002/

[msongs]

2. on its face it sounds like a sellout. we shall see nt

[AleksS]

3. Why do we deal with these twits. They will

Never hold their end of any deal anyways.

Lying through their teeth each and every time.

[Phoenix61]

5. As posted by onenote on another thread

“The current occupant of the seat being vacated is a Bush appointee -- unlikely that she's all that liberal. There are six judges on the Eastern District of Kentucky - all of them currently are Trump or GW Bush appointees. So it goes from a court where a republican is certain to be assigned a case to a court in which ....a republican is certain to be assigned a case.

Moreover, the Eastern District of KY is part of the Sixth Circuit -- any case decided by the District Court would be appealed to the Sixth Circuit and that court is solidly in Republican hands: its sixteen judges include 10 republican appointees: 6 Trump Judges 4 GW Bush judges. The six Democrats include 3 Clinton appointees, 2 Obama appointees and one Biden appointee. That line up isn't impacted by the deal with McConnell. So, in the end, if a Democrat was appointed to the District Court spot, that judge would only have a one in six chance of hearing any particular case and the odds of that judge's decisions being reversed by the appeals court would be very high.”

https://democraticunderground.com/100216877010

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. I do not want this guy pitched as a SCOTUS nominee in 10 years with "Biden nominated him, he must be

moderate!”