{"id":99103,"date":"2022-07-16T16:34:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T16:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=99103"},"modified":"2022-07-16T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T16:34:08","slug":"biden-drops-plan-to-name-anti-abortion-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=99103","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Biden Drops Plan to Name Anti-Abortion Judge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2022\/07\/16\/biden-drops-plan-to-name-anti-abortion-judge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Political Wire<\/a>: \u201cThe White House is abandoning plans to nominate a Kentucky lawyer who opposes abortion rights and is backed by Senator Mitch McConnell to a federal court seat, citing opposition from Senator Rand Paul, Mr. McConnell\u2019s home-state colleague,\u201d the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/15\/us\/politics\/biden-mcconnell-judge-abortion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe resistance from Mr. McConnell\u2019s fellow Republican marked a new twist over a potential nomination that had prompted outrage on the left. Democrats were incensed that President Biden\u2019s team had agreed to advance a conservative chosen by Mr. McConnell to fill a district court vacancy as the party is stepping up its focus on countering new abortion restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Wire: \u201cThe White House is abandoning plans to nominate a Kentucky lawyer who opposes abortion rights and is backed by Senator Mitch McConnell to a federal court seat, citing opposition from Senator Rand Paul, Mr. McConnell\u2019s home-state colleague,\u201d the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0reports. \u201cThe resistance from Mr. McConnell\u2019s fellow Republican marked a new twist over a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99105,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99103\/revisions\/99105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}