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9 Jun 2017, 7:19 am
If the Constitution does not compel the Senate to hold hearings for a president’s Supreme Court nominee within a given amount of time, then McConnell and company made a shrewd political move. [read post]
8 Jun 2017, 1:37 pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he expects votes on sanctions to occur. [read post]
22 May 2017, 4:02 am
In 2001, Trent Lott dismissed Robert Dove, the Senate Parliamentarian, after Republicans were angry that Dove, also a Republican appointee, disallowed spending measures as violating the Byrd Rules. [read post]
16 May 2017, 1:02 pm
McConnell isn’t the first person to suggest the idea. [read post]
15 May 2017, 8:04 am
It still has some important Roberts court cases, of course — Zivotofsky v. [read post]
11 May 2017, 9:30 pm
” President Trump plans to nominate Neil Chatterjee and Robert F. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 3:47 am
Meanwhile, Senators Robert Menéndez (D-NJ) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) wrote a letter today asking Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY), to include funding for Puerto Rico to avoid the so-called “Medicaid Cliff” for the Island. [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 1:38 pm
” An excerpt: When Mitch McConnell decided that black presidents only get to be president for seven years and refused to hold a hearing on Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, there was only one man in the country who could have stopped him: Chief Justice John Roberts. [read post]
10 Apr 2017, 1:20 pm
Photo by Mark Walsh Trump notes that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), could not be here today, but he thanks him “for all that he did to make this achievement possible. [read post]
7 Apr 2017, 8:45 am
President Donald Trump is expected to host an official oath ceremony early next week, where Chief Justice John Roberts would assume his traditional role of administering two oaths of office to Gorsuch. [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 10:50 am
But Merkley did manage to surpass legendary speeches by Alphonse D’Amato in 1992 and Robert Byrd in 1964 that were about 20 minutes shorter. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 8:10 am
Roberts (78-22), Sotomayor (68-31) and Kagan (63-37) all received more than 60 votes. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 9:15 am
McConnell, at a minimum, needed those votes and three others. [read post]
23 Mar 2017, 2:21 pm
But if "mainstream" means the kind of thinking exemplified by Chief Justice Roberts, whom I expect Gorsuch most closely to resemble, then the attack on him as out of the mainstream is just as nonsensical as it has sounded these last few days.But I digress. [read post]
20 Mar 2017, 3:00 am
The well-publicized nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court by President Reagan in 1987 saw Bork get just 42 votes in the Senate, when the Republicans had just 45 seats. [read post]
20 Mar 2017, 3:00 am
The well-publicized nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court by President Reagan in 1987 saw Bork get just 42 votes in the Senate, when the Republicans had just 45 seats. [read post]
20 Mar 2017, 3:00 am
The well-publicized nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court by President Reagan in 1987 saw Bork get just 42 votes in the Senate, when the Republicans had just 45 seats. [read post]
15 Mar 2017, 7:38 am
” (Justice Robert Jackson, joined by Justice Felix Frankfurter, made the same point in a concurrence some seven decades ago, a detail likely come up next Wednesday.) [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 11:04 am
“No hints, no forecasts, no previews – that is what has become known as the Ginsburg standard,” McConnell said recently in a Senate speech. [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 9:30 am
NPR informs us that the Trump administration has already interviewed former Central Command deputy director and retired Navy Admiral Robert Harward about filling the vacancy left by Flynn’s departure. [read post]
