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14 Jun 2019, 10:10 am
Robert Menendez, the ranking member on the Senate foreign relations committee, put a “hold” on the sale of certain precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia in June 2018. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 3:00 am
Chao’s aide Todd Inman, who stated in an email to McConnell’s Senate office that Chao had personally asked him to serve as an intermediary, helped advise the senator and local Kentucky officials on grants with special significance for McConnell, including a highway-improvement project in a McConnell political stronghold that had been twice rejected for previous grant applications. [read post]
10 Jun 2019, 10:41 am
• George McConnell, 89, of Katy, died May 8, 2019. [read post]
10 Jun 2019, 10:41 am
• George McConnell, 89, of Katy, died May 8, 2019. [read post]
10 Jun 2019, 7:30 am
But this founders not only because most justices are scarcely proficient in the political theory of popular sovereignty, but also because for good reason we now view the federal judiciary itself as simply another spoil of temporary electoral victory and not, for example, truly "above politics" and thus authorized to play the role of the "umpire" as enunciated by John Roberts, sincerely or not, in his confirmation hearings. [read post]
31 May 2019, 7:05 am
At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie reviews Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recent remarks in his home state of Kentucky that he would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 should one arise during the presidential election. [read post]
29 May 2019, 10:42 am
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell commented that he would consider a Supreme Court nomination should a seat become vacant during the 2020 election campaign, reports NBC. [read post]
24 May 2019, 3:00 am
A Conservative Activist’s Behind-the-Scenes Campaign to Remake the Nation’s Courts Anchorage Daily News – Robert O’Harrow Jr. and Shawn Boburg (Washington Post) | Published: 5/21/2019 At a time when President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are reshaping federal courts by installing conservative judges and Supreme Court justices, few people outside government have more influence over judicial appointments now than Leonard Leo. [read post]
20 May 2019, 11:00 am
An example from Robert Gates’s tenure as defense secretary illustrates this point. [read post]
14 May 2019, 7:29 am
The following is a series of questions prompted by the forthcoming publication of Michael Bobelian’s “Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court” (Schaffner Press, 2019). [read post]
13 May 2019, 8:00 am
Beren Professor of Government at Harvard University, and Michael McConnell, the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. [read post]
8 May 2019, 10:03 am
Holder never complied with the subpoena and went unpunished for contempt," McConnell wrote. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 8:43 pm
The weeks-long lag between Attorney General William Barr’s announcement of Robert Mueller’s top-line findings and the release of the Mueller report itself created space for an alternate reality in which the document released today might give rise to such a statement. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 6:00 am
Certainly, Donald Trump exhibits no respect for Roberts, whatever his willingness to rubber-stamp executive power in the Hawaii case.) [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 8:06 am
Beren Professor of Government at Harvard University, and Michael McConnell, the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 7:29 am
Hawaii), I think there are meaningful differences in the kind of politics engaged in by, say, Chief Justice John Roberts and the kind engaged in by, say, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. [read post]
24 Mar 2019, 4:23 pm
Leave it to President Trump to describe as “Total EXONERATION” a document that specifically quotes Special Counsel Robert Mueller as saying that one of his principal findings “does not exonerate” the president. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 7:18 am
Dorf is the Robert S. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 9:49 am
" Justice Kavanaugh and Chief Justice Roberts seemed to agree Lemon is too subjective to be useful. [read post]
21 Feb 2019, 4:00 am
Periodically on Thursdays, we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. [read post]
