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29 Aug 2018, 8:28 am by Elie Mystal
A week before the Kavanaugh hearings, Schumer shows his belly to Mitch McConnell. [read post]
29 Aug 2019, 1:16 pm by Kathryn Rubino
With control of the Court, Mitch McConnell is against any plan that changes that. [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 11:18 am
ROBERT BLUEY: Ethics bill puts Mitch McConnell on the spot. [read post]
1 Jul 2022, 7:00 pm by Howard Bashman
“Democrats run Washington, but the Supreme Court delivers big wins for GOP; The string of conservative victories shows why Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell used unusual and aggressive tactics to assemble the court’s 6-3 majority”: Sahil Kapur of NBC News has this news analysis. [read post]
12 Sep 2018, 8:16 am by Howard Bashman
“Republicans Confirmed A Lot Of Judges While Everyone Was Focused On Brett Kavanaugh; A second Supreme Court seat is only part of White House Counsel Don McGahn and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s push to transform the federal courts”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 7:50 am by Howard Bashman
“We Know Who the Real Judicial Extremist Is, and It Isn’t Ketanji Brown Jackson; Justice Jackson is well within the judicial and political mainstream; It’s Mitch McConnell, with his ruthless tactics, who is the extremist”: Maya Wiley has this essay online at The New Republic. [read post]
30 Mar 2018, 5:44 am by Howard Bashman
“Trump Has No Idea Why He Gets To Fill So Many Empty Court Seats; He should be thanking Mitch McConnell; He thinks Obama just mysteriously left him 100+ court vacancies”: Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost has this report. [read post]
23 Jan 2019, 10:18 am by Howard Bashman
Mitch McConnell Is Spending the Shutdown Confirming More Trump Judges; The president’s record-shattering 84 confirmed judges are already 76 percent male and 91 percent white; The next six are also all white men”: Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 4:06 am
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told a farm group on Saturday that the government should create a program to provide identification cards so employers are assured of hiring workers who are in the country legally. [read post]
11 Oct 2018, 4:08 pm by Howard Bashman
“Senate heads for exits as vulnerable Democrats get campaign time and McConnell gets his judges”: Mike DeBonis of The Washington Post has an article that begins, “Endangered Senate Democrats got their freedom to campaign for next month’s midterm elections and in exchange Majority Leader Mitch McConnell got something he highly values — votes on 15 of President Trump’s judicial nominees. [read post]
27 Dec 2021, 5:17 pm by Eugene Volokh
Last year, I wrote about the prosecution of Howard Weiss for sending eight e-mails to Senator Mitch McConnell, and Judge Charles Breyer's conclusion that the e-mails didn't fall within the "true threats" exception to the First Amendment. [read post]
24 Jul 2012, 8:45 am by Rick Hasen
New Slate column: “There is a shameful irony in Mitch McConnell and James Bopp attempting to shield the political contributions of the well-funded establishment—indeed, in the senator’s case, the economic elite—from public gaze through a doctrine meant to protect the weak and disenfranchised; cynically invoking the legacy of the Edmund Pettus Bridge to let the Koch brothers write their massive checks in private. [read post]
19 Jul 2022, 7:19 pm by Ned Foley
The Hill reports: “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says former President Trump will face a lot of competition in a Republican primary if he runs for president in 2024. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 3:33 pm
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, warned on Thursday that “a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take everything we have. [read post]
27 May 2011, 12:55 pm by Big Tent Democrat
Proving that Bill Clinton screwed up royally and should just stay out of ongoing political disputes, Mitch McConnell made some hay: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is leveraging an unusual ally to provide his party with cover from Democratic attack on the Paul Ryan budget and Medicare reform: Bill Clinton. [read post]
1 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
While he is barely named in Smith’s brief, he laid the foundation for the position that that brief articulates.That someone is Republican Senator Mitch McConnell.Smith refers to him only once, on page 71 of his 86-page brief. [read post]
23 Oct 2020, 9:08 am
McConnell answered a follow-up question by saying he had no concerns, and did not answer a question about whether he was seeing a doctor.... [read post]
11 Oct 2017, 2:05 pm
"Mitch McConnell Is Keeping The Senate Rule That Lets Dems Block Trump's Judges; The GOP leader may not personally be a fan of blue slips, but he's not getting rid of them, says his spokesman": Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost has this report. [read post]