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18 Jan 2020, 9:31 am by Margaret Taylor
How Roberts handles this issue will likely be the first glimpse of what we can expect from Roberts in the trial going forward. [read post]
4 Feb 2020, 11:22 am by Howard Bashman
“Mitch McConnell is terrible but John Roberts is actually the worst”: Whitney Ross Manzo has this essay online at The Hill. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 8:00 am by Terry Lenamon
  Robert Lee McConnell also represented himself, both at trial and in this latest motion for stay. [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 11:18 am
ROBERT BLUEY: Ethics bill puts Mitch McConnell on the spot. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 1:08 pm by Howard Bashman
“John Roberts Won’t Let Mitch McConnell Derail a Trump Impeachment Trial”: Law professor Bruce Ackerman has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 6:16 am by Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has thwarted a bipartisan effort to protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s job, saying he will not hold a floor vote on the legislation even if it is approved next week in the Senate Judiciary Committee. [read post]
13 Feb 2007, 5:29 pm
Robert Bork had a similar problem during his nomination. [read post]
27 Jul 2019, 4:39 pm by David Super
     The one person who possibly could frustrate an attempt by Senator McConnell to avoid holding an impeachment trial is Chief Justice Roberts. [read post]
3 Sep 2018, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Temperamentally and philosophically, Kavanaugh more closely resembles the moderate John Roberts than the fire-breathing monster some of his detractors are attempting to portray. [read post]
22 Oct 2021, 10:32 am by Howard Bashman
McConnell lauds Thomas, says Supreme Court should not heed the ‘rule of polls'”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report. [read post]
1 Feb 2020, 2:44 am by Marty Lederman
  Again, McConnell voted to table the motion, and that tabling motion passed on a 53-47 party-line vote.Given Roberts' decision not to vote on any ties, if the votes on McConnell's motions to table would've been 50-50, those motions would have failed, leading to debate . . . but then, after debate, if Schumer's motions to subpoena, and Van Hollen's motion to instruct the Chief Justice to decide subpoena motions, likewise would have resulted in… [read post]
22 Jan 2020, 4:10 am
And too bad Roberts was silent again when McConnell orchestrated a change in the rules governing confirmation for the Supreme Court to allow a Justice to be seated based on a simple majority vote. [read post]
25 Dec 2022, 7:51 am by Rick Hasen
Politico: Two days after pro-Donald Trump rioters attacked the Capitol, then-national security adviser Robert O’Brien got a call from Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and an aide who asked him to look into something he’d been hearing: retired military… Continue reading The post “McConnell team raised worries about attack on Biden inauguration, ex-NSA O’Brien told Jan. 6 committee” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
4 Jul 2007, 8:32 am
Ned Foley has this Moritz comment on whether Chief Justice Roberts followed the McConnell precedent in WRTL.... [read post]
26 Jan 2021, 5:35 am
 As for Manchin, he's been in the Senate longer — since 2011, after the seat was vacated by the death of the Democrat/Klansman Robert Byrd (a historic filibusterer) — but Manchin too is up for reelection in 2024, and I think McConnell knows he can count on Manchin not to vote against the filibuster. [read post]
22 May 2015, 3:55 pm
McConnell: [The provisions in the Patriot Act] removed bureaucratic barriers that had kept intelligence officials and criminal investigators from sharing information, a simple but major shift that FBI director Robert Mueller has credited with "significantly alter[ing] the landscape for conducting terrorism investigations. [read post]