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27 May 2022, 4:00 am
Nineteen current or recent Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, have taken at least $1 million each in campaign contributions from the NRA over their careers. [read post]
16 May 2022, 9:01 pm
The Supreme Court majority for something like Justice Alito’s draft would not exist were it not for then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s stonewalling of President Barack Obama’s nominee, Donald Trump’s unexpected 2016 Electoral College v [read post]
10 May 2022, 9:02 pm
As Justice Amy Coney Barrett stated during the questioning in the case, why worry about banning abortion and forced pregnancies when there are “safe haven” laws (which let you drop off a baby, no questions asked)? [read post]
10 May 2022, 9:00 pm
Their votes today will likely tell us that they care more about staying in step with McConnell’s Marching Band than about protecting women’s reproductive freedom. [read post]
3 May 2022, 6:30 am
What if Obama had had the political wit to nominate Amy Klobuchar or Sheldon Whitehouse and to challenge McConnell’s willingness to blow up any semblance of what remained of Senatorial comity? [read post]
22 Apr 2022, 4:36 am
Dan Wright and Amy Cassidy report for CNN. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
The upcoming presidential election was too close for any nominee to be fairly considered.That was followed by the hypocrisy of McConnell’s ramming through the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett one week before the 2020 election.But for those two exercises of naked power, all three of the decisions described here would have gone the other way, with Chief Justice Roberts in the majority every time.In Louisiana v. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 6:23 am
Khan QC stated that the ICC would open a third investigation against Russia for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Russian invasion into Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022; Whereas Ukraine has also filed a claim in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) instituting proceedings against the Russian Federation related to genocide under the Genocide Convention; and … The Senate— … (2) encourages member states to petition the ICC or other… [read post]
25 Feb 2022, 5:22 pm
” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., congratulated Jackson and said he looks forward to a careful review of her record. [read post]
10 Feb 2022, 3:57 am
In 2020, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell concluded the floor debate over Barrett’s confirmation after just three days. [read post]
25 Jan 2022, 2:55 pm
Amy Adler, Vince Blasi, Erwin Chemerinsky, Jamal Greene, Michael McConnell, Robert Post, Fred Schauer, Geoffrey Stone, and Rebecca Tushnet, as well as Judges Stephanos Bibas, Jose Cabranes, Douglas Ginsburg, Raymond Randolph, Neomi Rao, Robert Sack, David Stras, Jeffrey Sutton, and Diane Wood. [read post]
12 Dec 2021, 9:01 pm
We believe in the separation of church and state because it requires religions to obey laws enacted by the state instead of allowing religions to hold everyone to their own religious laws.This idea of separation is much disputed these days, as religions continue to gain more victories in the courts. [read post]
13 Nov 2021, 12:54 pm
In September, she spoke at the McConnell Center. [read post]
22 Oct 2021, 10:32 am
” 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]
22 Oct 2021, 6:48 am
Here’s the Friday morning read: McConnell lauds Thomas, says Supreme Court should not heed the ‘rule of polls’ (Robert Barnes, The Washington Post) Clarence Thomas Waited 30 Years for Court That Thinks Like Him (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law) Justice Clarence Thomas: the Supreme Court’s influencer (Ariane de Vogue, CNN) The Supreme Court Faces a Huge Test on Libel Law (Floyd Abrams, The New York Times) The future of vaccine mandates will likely come… [read post]
22 Sep 2021, 8:12 am
” Justice Amy Coney Barrett recently criticized the notion of the Court being full of “partisan hacks” during a speech at the [Mitch] McConnell Center at the University of Louisville Law School. [read post]
19 Sep 2021, 2:46 pm
If Supreme Court justices don’t want to be seen as “partisan hacks,” they should not act like them.In a speech last week at the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville Law School, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, “This court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks. [read post]
15 Sep 2021, 4:53 pm
“The Broader Problem With Amy Coney Barrett Promising the Court Isn’t Partisan: It was transparently absurd to do this at a celebration of Mitch McConnell; But the real issue goes deeper than that. [read post]
13 Sep 2021, 2:17 pm
How It’s Going: Amy Coney Barrett unironically plays “we’re not partisan hacks” card at McConnell event. [read post]
13 Sep 2021, 8:01 am
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told a crowd of more than 100 here that she doesn't believe the highest court in the land is politically driven. [read post]
