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1 Sep 2020, 9:59 am by Axel Hufford
Lawfare is partnering with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project to produce a series on election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 12:03 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Mitch McConnell will introduce bill to reform horse racing kblocher@hslf.org Mon, 08/31/2020 - 19:03 By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block Days before the Kentucky Derby kicks off in his home state next week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced he will introduce a bill to reform horse racing. [read post]
23 Aug 2020, 1:20 pm by Erin Napoleon
This bill will now go to the Senate, where the Majority Leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, referred to the legislation as a “piecemeal” and claimed that the changes undertaken by DeJoy were merely a “conspiracy theory” despite the bipartisan support in the House. [read post]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a press release praised the report on the investigation he set in motion way back in December 2016, saying, “I commend my colleagues on both sides for keeping their work out of the partisan spotlight and focused on the facts. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 11:57 am by Thomas DeLorenzo
The Senate Majority Leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, has refused to bring the bill for a vote in the upper chamber. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 11:26 am by Sandy Levinson
“To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 4:17 pm by Sandy Levinson
 Thus the need for full-scale political warfare, captured most memorably, of course, in Mitch McConnell's theory of non-governance during the Obama Administration. [read post]
10 Aug 2020, 11:52 am by Russell Pearce
” But his regime’s many efforts to repress the vote and discredit and undermine the election continue unchecked, abetted by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s refusal to take up election security and funding bills passed by the House, and his Postmaster General’s ongoing sabotage aimed at impeding the mail-in voting that will surge because of the pandemic Trump has exacerbated. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 3:14 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to include language in the next COVID-19 relief bill that would provide a “clear mandate” that agencies and federal contractors continue to offer maximum telework to all eligible employees. [read post]
4 Aug 2020, 5:01 am by William Ford, Margaret Taylor
For his part, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell initially questioned the constitutionality of proxy voting, signalling in late May that he might not take up legislation passed by the House when a quorum of members was not physically present. [read post]
3 Aug 2020, 1:04 pm by Kevin LaCroix
It is important to note in that regard, however, the Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, has said that providing a liability shield for businesses and health care providers is a “red line issue” for the enactment of the next Congressional relief package. [read post]
2 Aug 2020, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
They have either stonewalled routine requests for information or turned hearings into farces.They have been aided and abetted by congressional Republicans who care more about showing their loyalty to the President than about the well-being of the institution in which they serve.Thus, after the 2018 midterm elections, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called congressional oversight a form of “presidential harassment” and warned his Democratic colleagues that… [read post]
2 Aug 2020, 6:35 am by Nassiri Law
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a proposal on the table that would extend wide protection to employers for pandemic-related claims – for up to five years. [read post]
1 Aug 2020, 2:15 pm by Sandy Levinson
Lewis will very likely get the Edmund Pettus Bridge named after him, but hell will freeze over before Mitch McConnell and his collaborationist allies (including Susan Collins) will vote to renew the clearance procedures of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the GOP majority of the Supreme Court gutted in Shelby County. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 10:13 am by Erin Darreff
Murphy is saying, ‘Hey Mitch McConnell, we want more money! [read post]
On July 27, 2020, Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and John Cornyn (R-TX) released the SAFE TO WORK Act (“the Act”). [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 7:15 pm by Tom Smith
The Senate's top Republican, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, flatly told a Kentucky news station the election would not be moving. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 4:10 pm by Emily Beeken
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell weighed in on a delayed election, speaking to Kentucky TV station WNKY. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 6:44 am by Gerard N. Magliocca
(There would also, of course, be no Senator Mitch McConnell, as his term expires at the end of the year.) [read post]