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15 Mar 2021, 5:08 am by Steve Lubet
The change in even one seat, due to death, severe illness, or change of heart, would reinstall Mitch McConnell as majority leader, and we know what happened last time. [read post]
15 Mar 2021, 3:09 am by SHG
You know, that time during which Nino Scalia passed away and Merrick Garland was nominated to replace him, but Mitch McConnell gamed the delay and got away with it. [read post]
4 Mar 2021, 5:20 pm by Howard Bashman
Mitch McConnell Working With Kentucky Legislature on Senate Exit Strategy; Legislation informally referred to as the Daniel Cameron Election Bill is moving through the Kentucky General Assembly”: Nick Storm has this report online at The Intercept. [read post]
“President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office, as an ordinary citizen,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell argued in defending his vote against convicting Trump. [read post]
24 Feb 2021, 5:30 am by Jordan Rothman
[Bloomberg Law] * Mitch McConnell is backing Merrick Garland's nomination to be Attorney General. [read post]
23 Feb 2021, 7:26 am by Brian C. Kalt
The majority, a group comprising 26 senators, stated clearly that they based their decision on the Senate’s lack of jurisdiction: John Barrasso, Roy Blunt, Mike Braun, Shelley Moore Capito, John Cornyn, Tom Cotton, Mike Crapo, Steve Daines, Joni Ernst, Deb Fischer, John Hoeven, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Jim Inhofe, John Kennedy, James Lankford, Cynthia Lummis, Mitch McConnell, Jerry Moran, Rob Portman, Jim Risch, Mike Rounds, Marco Rubio, Richard Shelby, Dan Sullivan, Tommy… [read post]
19 Feb 2021, 7:59 am by Bob Bauer
The first impeachment of an American president took place 79 years after George Washington’s election. [read post]
18 Feb 2021, 9:05 pm by Alana Sheppard
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), for instance, called President Trump’s actions a “disgraceful dereliction of duty,” but voted to acquit because he did not believe the impeachment trial was permissible. [read post]
17 Feb 2021, 5:30 am by Jordan Rothman
[CNN] * Lawyers for an alleged Capitol rioter are reportedly trying to use Mitch McConnell's words about President Trump's actions to their advantage. [read post]
16 Feb 2021, 12:19 pm by Joe Consumer
Probably just as likely, you heard about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s speech tearing into Trump even though he voted to acquit. [read post]
16 Feb 2021, 10:44 am by Tia Sewell
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “Acquittal Vindicated the Constitution, Not Trump. [read post]
15 Feb 2021, 10:25 am by Tom Smith
Mitch McConnell delivered a scalding denunciation of Donald Trump, calling him “morally responsible” for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. [read post]
15 Feb 2021, 7:26 am by Jonathan H. Adler
"] In his remarks defending his decision not to vote to convict Donald Trump in the just-concluded impeachment trial, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said: President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office, as an ordinary citizen, unless the statute of limitations has run, still liable for everything he did while in office, didn't get away with anything yet – yet. [read post]
” Biden called out Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell in particular, stating that even McConnell “believe[s] Donald Trump was guilty of a ‘disgraceful dereliction of duty’ and ‘practically and morally responsible for provoking’ the violence unleashed on the Capitol. [read post]
14 Feb 2021, 8:30 am
" with a vote in the senate coming down to the very last vote.Casting: Meryl Streep as Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the Housel; Jim Carrey as Lindsay Graham; Eugene Levy as Majority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer; Zack Galifianakis as Mitch McConnell; Will Ferrell as Congressman and Impeachment Manager Jaime Raskin; Jennifer Lopez as Melania Trump; Billie Ellish as Tiffany Trump- the disaffected daughter of the President;  Neil Patrick Harris as Jared Kushner;  Iggy Azalea… [read post]
14 Feb 2021, 4:19 am by SHG
It’s unclear whether a switch in time would have made enough of a difference to change the outcome, but had Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told his caucus he would vote to convict, it likely would have swayed, or freed more likely, others to do the same. [read post]
13 Feb 2021, 6:18 pm by Howard Bashman
“Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial Sharpens Republican Divides; Seven Republicans voted to convict, and several more, including Mitch McConnell, criticized the ex-president, who still commands loyalty”: Lindsay Wise of The Wall Street Journal has this report. [read post]