President Donald Trump won't be moving forward with his nomination of Brett Talley, the controversial candidate for a federal judgeship in Alabama who as a hobby wrote blogs and participated in ghost hunts, an administration official told NPR on Wednesday.

Buzzfeed reported on Tuesday that Brett Talley had offered to withdraw from consideration for the U.S. District Court judgeship in the middle district of Alabama.

And also this week Republican Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee had asked Trump to rethink his nomination of Talley and one other man to a Texas judgeship, CNN reported.

Talley's nomination to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama - a lifetime appointment if he gets confirmed - had already gone through the Judiciary Committee and he is waiting on a vote from the full Senate.

Controversy around Talley since he was approved by the Judiciary Committee last month. An online comment he wrote in 2011 surfaced defending the early KKK. He also didn't disclose his wife's top White House job as a potential conflict of interest on his Senate questionnaire.

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) Policy Director Todd A. Cox was pleased with Grassley's decision.

"We've spent months raising alarms about Trump's unqualified and inexperienced choices for the federal bench, including Brett Talley," Cox stated. "Talley was not only found unanimously not qualified by the nonpartisan ABA, but he also failed to disclose his marriage to the White House Counsel's chief of staff, as well as thousands of online posts he authored, including one defending the 'first KKK.'"

Talley has an eclectic resume that includes Harvard, horror writing and hunting ghosts, but his lack of trial experience has drawn disapproval from an influential legal organization.

The American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary last week unanimously rated Talley unqualified to serve as a federal district court judge. The group has only rated a handful of judicial picks unqualified since the 1990s. Talley was admitted to the Alabama Bar in 2007, but has only practiced for three years, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The 36-year-old attorney grew up in Jasper and attended the University of Alabama and Harvard Law School. He was appointed as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this year. For almost two years before that, he worked as deputy solicitor general in the Alabama Office of the Attorney General under former Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange.

Talley has published widely, and not just in law journals. He is an award-nominated horror writer who has also published blog posts in support of gun rights. He has also written guest posts for Al.com, including a column in support of his former boss's campaign for U.S. Senate.

Talley's questionnaire also included some information about his hobbies - including fiction writing and ghost hunting. In a question about memberships to civic and professional organizations, Talley listed the Tuscaloosa Paranormal Research Group, which he belonged to from 2009 to 2010. He has co-written books about haunted sites in Tuscaloosa and the Black Belt.