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27 Sep 2021, 4:30 am
More prosaically, Justice Barrett recently honored Mitch McConnell by declaring that she and her colleagues cleared the lowest of all possible bars: that they aren't "partisan hacks. [read post]
25 Sep 2021, 7:05 am
And in related commentary, online at MSNBC, Steve Benen has an essay titled “McConnell won’t rule out blocking possible Biden SCOTUS nominees; Mitch McConnell won’t rule out blocking Joe Biden’s future Supreme Court nominees. [read post]
23 Sep 2021, 6:16 am
When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, Ky.) speaks, he sometimes tells the truth. [read post]
22 Sep 2021, 9:13 pm
More significantly, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has insisted that Democrats must pass any debt limit increase without any Republican votes. [read post]
22 Sep 2021, 8:12 am
” Justice Amy Coney Barrett recently criticized the notion of the Court being full of “partisan hacks” during a speech at the [Mitch] McConnell Center at the University of Louisville Law School. [read post]
19 Sep 2021, 2:46 pm
Mitch McConnell, who blocked the confirmation of Merrick Garland to the court and rushed through the confirmation of Barrett precisely because of their ideologies, the reality is that time and again the court’s Republican majority has handed down decisions strongly favoring Republicans in the political process.Does Barrett really expect people to believe that is a coincidence? [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 12:16 pm
"Moreover, up to ten Republican senators appeared at various points last year to be in serious danger of losing, including Lindsey Graham and even Mitch McConnell. [read post]
15 Sep 2021, 4:53 pm
“The Broader Problem With Amy Coney Barrett Promising the Court Isn’t Partisan: It was transparently absurd to do this at a celebration of Mitch McConnell; But the real issue goes deeper than that. [read post]
Labels Matter: How Professor Jack Balkin Snookered Justice Kagan and Others to Fuel Faux Originalism
15 Sep 2021, 4:30 am
I don't believe, though I concede it is rank speculation, that Kagan would have made that statement without Balkin's scholarship explicitly tying liberal results like Roe to originalism.Here are representative examples of the attention (read harm) caused by Kagan's statement: Senator Mitch McConnell, (2020) sent out a newsletter with the title: "We are all Originalists," citing among others Justice Kagan.The Blog of the Legal Times (2010),… [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 1:02 am
Expanding the Court is the only way to stop the far right majority on the Court, which includes two seats that were stolen by Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the GOP. [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm
When Republicans have retaken both houses of Congress and have installed either Donald Trump or his anointed successor in the White House in January 2025, what will they do next? [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 6:08 pm
For a brief, shining moment early in Joe Biden's presidency, there was a flurry of talk about the exciting possibility of resizing the Supreme Court in response to Donald Trump, despite losing the popular vote, still getting to appoint three justices — one into a seat illegally held open by then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 11:55 am
For many, this became apparent in the awful months immediately after Election Day 2020, of course, when a steady stream of GOP leaders took to the airwaves to let their voters know that “the most secure election in history” had just taken place.For others, it was the Second Impeachment of Citizen Trump — a symbolic exercise that only served to destroy the political career of Mitch McConnell, and raze his reputation as the bluegrass Machiavelli of our times. [read post]
25 Aug 2021, 2:51 pm
GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell called the amendment “unnecessary” and warned that it would give the DOJ and the federal government too much power over the states while Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, applauded the passage of the amendment. [read post]
23 Aug 2021, 12:41 pm
Majority Mitch McConnell write a national immunity bill. [read post]
23 Aug 2021, 12:41 pm
Majority Mitch McConnell write a national immunity bill. [read post]
5 Aug 2021, 11:10 am
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, Defending Rights and Dissent and 13 other organizations sent a letter to Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and other members of Congress asking them to act swiftly to amend the vague and dangerous digital currency provision of Biden’s infrastructure bill. [read post]
30 Jul 2021, 7:42 am
” Seventeen Republicans, including Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, joined Democrats in voting to move forward with HR 3684, the “INVEST in America Act,” which aims to authorize funds for federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, transit programs, and other infrastructure projects. [read post]
29 Jul 2021, 10:19 am
The 67-32 vote included Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and 16 other Republicans in favor of moving forward. [read post]
27 Jul 2021, 12:00 am
Last week, Mitch McConnell announced that Senate Republicans will not agree to adjust or re-suspend the debt ceiling before (or after) it is scheduled to come back to life on July 31. [read post]
