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19 Sep 2020, 10:40 am
With just 45 days until Election Day, will President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rush to push through the third SCOTUS nominee of Trump’s administration If so, what challenges will they face? [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 9:32 am
Trump is expected to nominate a replacement as soon as next week, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., immediately vowed to hold a Senate confirmation vote. [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 7:50 am
Harris has an essay titled “Court fight will test how fragile American democracy really is; In trying to ram through a replacement for Ginsburg, Mitch McConnell elevates power over principle. [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 6:45 am
Within hours of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated that the GOP-controlled Senate will vote on a replacement nominated by Trump before the end of this year. [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 3:49 am
"Said Donald Trump, quoted in "Donald Trump to put forth nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in coming days: Sources/Mitch McConnell says he does plan to vote on Trump's nominee" (ABC News).We learned of Ginsburg's death as we were watching Trump's Minnesota rally last night. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 6:38 pm
McConnell, in a statement released just over ... [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 6:22 pm
“McConnell says Senate will vote on Supreme Court”: Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times has a report that begins, “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday that he will force a vote on whomever President Trump nominates to fill the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, signaling a brutal fight later this year. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 8:22 am
Enlarge / William Barr, US attorney general, center, arrives for a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., US, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 6:30 am
But he does not discuss the undemocratic composition of the Senate required by the Constitution as an underlying enabler of Mitch McConnell’s success in shaping the federal judiciary that is failing to protect democracy. [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 6:30 am
For the Symposium on Jack M. [read post]
15 Sep 2020, 9:54 am
Attorney Todd Robinson to the Southern District of California.Law360 has GOP Leader Makes Late Drive To Leave 'No Vacancy Behind'Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has just shy of four weeks left before his chamber's 2020 session is relegated to lame-duck status, and with dozens of court nominees still on tap, the question hangs over Washington as to how many he can get confirmed before the November election.More than 60 seats remain unfilled in the federal… [read post]
15 Sep 2020, 7:32 am
The following is a series of questions posed by Ronald Collins to Ilya Shapiro concerning his forthcoming book, Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court (Regnery Gateway, 2020). [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 6:46 am
If these interests showed up in Mitch McConnell’s office, "you’d see a pivot so fast your head would spin" observed Whitehouse.Focus on resiliency. [read post]
10 Sep 2020, 9:05 pm
In a statement, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stated that the “many serious differences” between Democrats and Republicans “should not stand in the way of … making law that helps our nation. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 3:31 pm
I'm sure Mitch was none too pleased. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 12:53 pm
In fact, it seems that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell specifically invited them to add its revolting agenda to McConnell's national corporate immunity bill. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 9:56 am
A companion bill, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act, was introduced today in the Senate by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., with Sen. [read post]
9 Sep 2020, 6:01 am
And the GOP has long been supported cuts to Social Security to pay for the 1%’s tax cuts (under the guise of balancing the budget), so if Social Security funding falls into the general fund, its likely in trouble, and very likely in trouble if Mitch McConnel still controls the Senate, and never more so than in the coming years if and when we decide to pay off some of the Trump deficit. [read post]
8 Sep 2020, 10:18 am
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, under pressure from GOP senators in tough reelection races, said Tuesday the Senate would vote on a trimmed-down Republican coronavirus relief package, though it has a slim chance of passage in the face of Democrats’ insistence for more sweeping aid. [read post]
7 Sep 2020, 10:04 am
In short, President Trump has led a wrecking crew (aided and abetted by William Barr and Mitch McConnell) that has severely damaged American legal norms of behavior. [read post]
