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14 Apr 2016, 12:05 pm
"Ken Starr Thinks Mitch McConnell Should Fill Scalia's Seat: Reagan appointee and Clinton prober says Merrick Garland deserves hearings and a vote as a matter of 'good government.'" Michael McAuliff of The Huffington Post has this report today. [read post]
22 May 2015, 3:55 pm
Here’s why, in his own words (which apparently are evergreen, no matter how much we find out about NSA spying abuses), McConnell is clearly the wrong person to be calling the shots when it comes to NSA reform: McConnell: Intelligence officials tell us the Patriot Act is as valuable today as the day it was signed. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 4:31 pm by Andrew Hamm
Below the jump the blog reproduces the transcript of Senator Mitch McConnell’s response on the Senate floor to Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court. [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 5:31 pm
As a general matter, executive prerogatives have been the single most important legal article of faith for this Administration. [read post]
18 Jun 2023, 9:00 am by Stacey Matthews
"The fact is simple: if Senator Feinstein resigns, Mitch McConnell gets to decide whether Democrats have a Senate Judiciary majority. [read post]
14 Feb 2021, 4:19 am by SHG
McConnell’s position seems not merely wrong as a matter of constitutional construction, but pragmatics. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 4:42 pm by Eugene Volokh
McConnell (Stanford), one of the leading American originalist scholars: I most often agree with my good friends and casebook co-authors Will Baude and Michael Paulsen on matters of constitutional interpretation. [read post]
22 Oct 2021, 10:32 am by Howard Bashman
” In commentary, online at MSNBC, Steve Benen has an essay titled “Why Mitch McConnell’s celebration of Clarence Thomas matters; Amy Coney Barrett recently said she doesn’t want people to see justices as ‘partisan hacks’; I hope she saw Clarence Thomas’ Heritage Foundation event. [read post]
18 Mar 2014, 4:23 am by Rebecca Tushnet
#McConnelling: The Daily Show invites users to score footage of Mitch McConnell to as many songs as possible. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 7:40 am by Robert Chesney
McConnell suggests that conventional law enforcement and the courts are not up to that task, and that the men should be sent to GTMO to serve that interest, among others. [read post]
16 Oct 2022, 9:02 pm by Vikram David Amar
Even in matters of election law. . . there is no reason to think the Framers of the federal Constitution intended to liberate state legislatures from the ordinary constraints of state constitutional law.But B/M also reject the broad rejection of ISL because they believe folks like Akhil and I: would rewrite the Constitution to replace the term legislature with the term state. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 4:36 am by Jonathan H. Adler
It does not matter, constitutionally, that congressional Republicans have abused their authority by refusing to confirm qualified nominees—just as congressional Democrats did in the previous administration. [read post]
1 Nov 2020, 1:36 pm by Megan Robinson
She handles a variety of insolvency and bankruptcy matters; a majority of which have tax complexities. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm by Dennis Aftergut
”Few can forget Mitch McConnell’s refusal, as then-Senate majority leader in March 2016, to hold any hearing at all, much less a Senate vote, on President Obama’s Court nomination of Merrick Garland eight months before the 2016 election. [read post]