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19 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
We have reached a point in our national political life so degraded and detached from reality that Republican Senator Mitt Romney (a supposed moderate, or at least a man thought to be a sane conservative) whines that President Biden did not personally contact him about voting rights legislation. [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 6:00 am
 ADDED: Stuart Stevens was Mitt Romney’s chief strategist when Romney suffered the most egregious display of moderator bias in the history of televised presidential debates, the thing that made me do the search for "candy. [read post]
29 Dec 2021, 4:31 am
[H]e sought to undermine Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy in 2012 by repeatedly, and without evidence, claiming that Mr. [read post]
22 Dec 2021, 10:37 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  Mitt Romney deserves credit for voting to convict Donald Trump in both impeachment trials, but Romney is fully on board with everything else, from forcing Democrats to increase the debt ceiling with no Republican votes to filibustering every attempt to reverse voter suppression, gerrymandering, and so on. [read post]
29 Nov 2021, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
But while I think that the not-in-the-text argument fairly applies to both enumerated and unenumerated rights, I'm content for current purposes not to push past the point of saying that the Claremont brief and the similar not-in-the-text claims in the briefs of Mississippi and its other amici would obliterate all unenumerated rights.Speaking of Mississippi's other amici, we find what we might call an insurrectionist-adjacent brief of Senators Josh (raised fist) Hawley, Ted (let's… [read post]
8 Nov 2021, 6:33 am by Derek T. Muller
(Two firms appear in both lists, Paul Weiss and Quinn Emanuel.)Second, unlike my 2013 ranking (where I looked at contributions to Barack Obama’s or Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns), I expanded the window. [read post]
8 Nov 2021, 6:33 am by Derek T. Muller
(Two firms appear in both lists, Paul Weiss and Quinn Emanuel.)Second, unlike my 2013 ranking (where I looked at contributions to Barack Obama’s or Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns), I expanded the window. [read post]
7 Nov 2021, 5:42 am
The 2010 midterm elections demonstrated the coalition’s strength, but it felt the same way toward Mitt Romney as it had for McCain — nice guy but didn’t inspire them.... [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Could the Supreme Court suddenly strike down tax laws that have existed without challenge for decades? [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Could the Supreme Court suddenly strike down tax laws that have existed without challenge for decades? [read post]
30 Sep 2021, 5:32 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  This is, to say the least, counter-intuitive.Even though nearly everyone in the world -- people as well as corporations (also known as people, as Mitt Romney once reminded us with such exquisite tone-deafness) -- has borrowed money for completely sensible reasons, Republicans know that people possess a DNA-level revulsion to the notion of debt. [read post]
24 Aug 2021, 4:30 am by Michael C. Dorf
Indeed, as Professor Buchanan noted to me in another email (yes, I sent a lot of emails while on the road, but don't worry, only when my daughter was driving), even if Susan Collins or Mitt Romney represented Kansas in the US Senate, we'd be no closer to overcoming a Republican filibuster on everything the GOP currently wants to filibuster. [read post]
2 Aug 2021, 1:31 pm by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
Mitt Romney, one of the negotiating senators, sought to establish the bipartisan infrastructure compromise as separate from a $3.5 trillion spending package being pushed by congressional Democrats, saying that “our Democrat friends are going to push for that monstrosity with or without this bill. [read post]