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8 Feb 2023, 5:39 am
Congratulations to the longest serving Senate Leader in history, Mitch McConnell. [read post]
3 Feb 2023, 11:38 am
by Neil H. [read post]
3 Feb 2023, 6:00 am
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
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
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
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
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
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
” 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]
6 Dec 2022, 7:09 am
” According to NPR, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell echoed Cheney’s sentiments to reporters on Tuesday. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 12:23 pm
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
Then Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump happened, and it was gone. [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 3:00 am
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]
16 Nov 2022, 1:33 pm
Would Mitch McConnell be an institutionalist and a statesman when the presidency is there for the taking? [read post]
15 Nov 2022, 4:00 am
Having received reinforcements courtesy of Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump, Justice Thomas is now among the Court's most active questioners at oral arguments. [read post]
10 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm
It’s safe to assume that the only Biden nominations of judges that would proceed to confirmation would be those who satisfied likely Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham’s litmus tests on abortion, labor issues, and voting rights.After all, a near complete blockade of judicial confirmations was what happened under then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Senate when Obama was President. [read post]
10 Nov 2022, 7:31 am
The need to back Ukraine in its war against Russia – in order to uphold a rules-based world order that delivers freedom, peace, and prosperity rather than rivalry, war, and subjugation by Moscow and Beijing – is well-understood by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former Vice President Mike Pence, and still about half of Republican survey respondents. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 5:03 am
For now, let's talk about Congress.SenateIf Republicans end up flipping two or three Senate seats to more than offset their loss in Pennsylvania, confirmations of judicial and executive nominees will slow considerably and, depending on the ability of the new Senate majority leader (likely Mitch McConnell again) to lead, could grind to a halt entirely. [read post]