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19 Oct 2020, 8:16 am
Obama never got the free hand that Mitch McConnell gave Trump with the help of white supremacists, gun-toting militias, Proud Boys, and the Nazis who rose from defeat by American soldiers in World War II. [read post]
18 Oct 2020, 2:19 pm
To be sure, three federal judges and the Solicitor General of the United States have already insisted that, contrary to Donald Trump's and Mitch McConnell's repeated boasts that they eliminated the "individual mandate" and rendered the ACA less coercive than it was before 2017, in fact Trump and the GOP Congress directly flouted the NFIB majority's constitutional judgment by imposing a mandate to maintain insurance.And I'm afraid… [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 8:33 pm
On the upside, however, a deal of this kind doesn't necessarily require support from Trump or even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 7:10 am
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed to bring Trump’s nominee to a vote, even though he had blocked President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland just four years earlier because it was an election year. [read post]
13 Oct 2020, 2:52 pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he's scheduling a procedural vote on a GOP COVID-19 relief bill next week, saying aid to hard-hit businesses shouldn't be held up by gridlock involving other aid proposals. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 12:30 pm
Most notably, the Senate can vote on a discharge resolution that would remove the responsibility of considering the Barrett nomination from the committee, allowing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to call the nomination for a full vote. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 6:00 am
Critics of Trump's judicial appointees have been quick to answer that the only reason those vacancies exist is because of Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell's unprecedented obstruction of Obama's nominees. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
Because he knows that he is going to try to use the courts to reverse the people’s verdict against him in this year’s election.Having another of Mitch McConnell’s pre-screened nominees on the Supreme Court—and to be clear, there is no reason that Senate Democrats should view Trump’s nominee as a flesh-and-bones human being, because McConnell certainly sees all of these people as interchangeable—could, indeed, make the difference in… [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 6:18 pm
As soon as the April relief legislation passed, the White House, and especially Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, made clear that they were in no hurry to move additional bill. [read post]
6 Oct 2020, 6:32 pm
Even if the election wasn’t four weeks away, Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell would fast-track Barrett just to reduce and hopefully eliminate the amount of time that Senate Democrats have to manufacture smears and slurs. [read post]
6 Oct 2020, 9:02 am
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated that all Republican members of the Judiciary Committee will participate, noting that members have successfully participated virtually since May 2020. [read post]
6 Oct 2020, 5:31 am
House keeps trying to do that, while the Trump Administration and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell keep trying to nickel and dime the lifeblood out of the U.S. economy. [read post]
5 Oct 2020, 9:40 am
Congress and the White House have deadlocked over further assistance, with a key stumbling block — as expressed by the foot-dragging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — focused on demands for greater protections for health care workers and enterprises, as well as business in general, from legal accountability for their work during the pandemic. [read post]
5 Oct 2020, 8:00 am
There would be nothing that politicians could do to game the system, as Senator Mitch McConnell did in 2016.In the new system, politicians no longer have incentives to nominate very young judges, because Justices' most important decisions will occur in their first 18 years of service. [read post]
4 Oct 2020, 3:48 pm
For Further Reading: Senator Mitch McConnell has vowed he will push forward on the conformation of SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett, despite the recent spate of positive COVID results among Judiciary Committee members. [read post]
3 Oct 2020, 8:33 pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) doubled down on his plan for a quick confirmation of Barrett in a radio interview on Friday. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 10:45 am
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said it appears unlikely another COVID-19 relief deal will be reached in the near future, saying that Republicans and Democrats are “very far part” on spending. [read post]
1 Oct 2020, 3:27 am
As he strives to do so he should seek guidance from a counterintuitive source, one frequently standing just a few feet away: He should do whatever Mitch McConnell would do. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 3:42 pm
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Martha McSally, R-Ariz., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., have introduced S. 4547, which was mirrored by the House bill. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 11:17 am
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, is on Capitol Hill on Tuesday for a day of meetings with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other pivotal Republican senators in preparation for her fast-track confirmation before the Nov. 3 election. [read post]
