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10 Mar 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
From Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to rank-and-file lawmakers, Republican senators largely rejected Fox personality Tucker Carlson’s vision of the deadly insurrection as a mostly peaceful protest that involved little violence. [read post]
On the other side of the debate, lawmakers such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said the DC bill softened criminal penalties amidst rising crime rates. [read post]
9 Mar 2023, 4:24 am by Emma Snell
  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was hospitalized yesterday after tripping at a hotel during a private dinner, his spokesperson David Popp said. [read post]
8 Mar 2023, 8:12 am by Tom Smith
Leading the group was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. [read post]
16 Feb 2023, 9:59 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  In addition to Senators Scott and Lee, both of whom have said that they would like to end those programs in different ways (Scott's claim that the programs could be re-authorized with new votes every five years being laughably dishonest), their party colleagues in the upper chamber are also on the record undermining these two highly popular programs.The easiest comments to ridicule (and that is saying a lot) are unsurprisingly emanating from Wisconsin's Ron Johnson, who has… [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 4:38 am by Emma Snell
Josh Hawley (R-MO) from the Armed Services committee last month reportedly stemmed in part from his involvement in challenging Mitch McConnell’s hold as the chamber’s top Republican. [read post]
3 Feb 2023, 6:00 am by Caroline Fredrickson
Notwithstanding Senator Mitch McConnell’s recent eyewash about appointing only the “finest legal minds” to the federal bench, the judicial-selection process is really about shaping, if not actually controlling, policy-making in the country, from the Affordable Care Act, through abortion, gun-control, environmental protection, church-state separation, and just about any other subject of public policy anyone can imagine. [read post]
22 Jan 2023, 4:38 am
" Excerpt:On a host of issues, Trump and his lieutenants are itching to portray DeSantis as the “establishment” figure — the one who is preferred by the supposedly squishy party bigwigs like Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. [read post]
18 Jan 2023, 5:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Rather, the hardball tactics of Senate Republicans under Mitch McConnell’s leadership and the somewhat random timing of Supreme Court vacancies brought Justice Thomas new colleagues who share his policy and jurisprudential druthers.That could happen for scholars too. [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Rather, the hardball tactics of Senate Republicans under Mitch McConnell’s leadership and the somewhat random timing of Supreme Court vacancies brought Justice Thomas new colleagues who share his policy and jurisprudential druthers. [read post]
25 Dec 2022, 7:51 am by Rick Hasen
Politico: Two days after pro-Donald Trump rioters attacked the Capitol, then-national security adviser Robert O’Brien got a call from Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and an aide who asked him to look into something he’d been hearing: retired military… Continue reading The post “McConnell team raised worries about attack on Biden inauguration, ex-NSA O’Brien told Jan. 6 committee” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 4:14 am by SHG
This is the McConnell Republican border crisis if we give them more money this week without demanding that they secure the border,” Roy said on “Fox News Sunday,” referring to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 5:35 pm by Brian Finucane
One or more of the negotiators might have taken the view that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) expressed in remarks on the Senate floor last year, that repealing the 2002 AUMF would be “reckless” and would remove “authorities for U.S. forces [in Iraq] to defend themselves from a variety of real, exigent threats. [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 4:00 am by Mike LaChance
” The post Mitch McConnell Once Again Brings Up ‘Candidate Quality’ in 2022 Senate Races first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion. [read post]
” According to NPR, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell echoed Cheney’s sentiments to reporters on Tuesday. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 12:23 pm by Kristen Lee
Under their leadership, this bill has secured wider bipartisan support, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Then Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump happened, and it was gone. [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Mitch McConnell was reelected as Republican leader, quashing a challenge from Sen. [read post]
16 Nov 2022, 3:21 pm
Republican senators voted to keep Senator Mitch McConnell as their minority leader; the party is on the brink of capturing a majority in the House" (NYT).Why are they only just now getting around to repealing the Defense of Marriage Act? [read post]