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9 Nov 2022, 5:03 am by Michael C. Dorf
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]
8 Nov 2022, 2:38 am
"... and 'Ron DeSanctimonious' is certainly an improvement on recent head-scratchers like Letitia 'Peekaboo' James, Mitch 'Broken Old Crow' McConnell, and Elaine 'Coco' Chao. [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 7:45 am by Dan Farber
If Mitch McConnell is Senate majority leader, he’s likely to block most appointments. [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 5:30 am by jonathanturley
The Capitol riot was denounced by most Americans; Republican leaders like Vice President Pence and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) carried out their constitutional duties. [read post]
Notably, Ricketts was the Republican nominee for the Senate in 2006 (when he lost in the general election), and Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has openly expressed his desire for Ricketts to succeed Sasse. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on James E. [read post]
18 Oct 2022, 6:38 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  For example, the editors of The Post went out of their way to make sure that everyone thinks of adding seats to the Supreme Court as "court packing," with at most a tut-tutting mention of how the Republicans packed the current Court (and never, of course, using that dreaded phrase to describe Mitch McConnell's handiwork).What makes The Times so problematic? [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 5:00 am by Nicolas P. Terry
Chamber of Commerce, and in July 2020 then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that any post-CARES pandemic economic relief or stimulus legislation would have to include a 5-year lawsuit shield for businesses, such as the proposed Safe To Work Act. [read post]
16 Oct 2022, 12:46 pm
" And they’re surely why Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, issued his now-famous lament about “candidate quality,” sounding like a disgruntled carnivore who’d ordered a Wagyu rib-eye and was served cold Salisbury steak.More food. [read post]
9 Oct 2022, 9:04 pm by Eric W. Orts
In a single week in June 2022, at the close of its last term, the U.S. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 2:01 am by Jen Patja Howell
Experts are all but unanimous on the need to reform the law, and both proposals have at least some bipartisan support, including from Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. [read post]
4 Oct 2022, 3:23 am by jonathanturley
For counsel, those challenges likely seem steeper in a week when Trump unleashed reckless and offensive attacks on Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and his wife former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao as well as journalist, Maggie Haberman. [read post]
28 Sep 2022, 4:04 am by Emma Snell
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27 Sep 2022, 9:03 pm by Michael C. Dorf
In this view, Mitch McConnell’s successful blockade of Merrick Garland to steal a Supreme Court seat and the untimely death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg followed by the shameless rush to confirm Amy Coney Barrett combined to bake in the extremely conservative Court we now have.Yet Congress has tools at its disposal. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 9:00 pm by Barry Winograd
Such struggles signal continuing fissures if and when a report is issued about the internal investigation that followed.Speeches by Justices have conveyed the impression of a Court at odds within itself and beyond, whether it be Justice Clarence Thomas’s negative remarks about Court collegiality under Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asserting that the Court is not composed of “partisan hacks” in a speech honoring Republican leader Mitch McConnell,… [read post]
23 Sep 2022, 7:05 am by Rick Hasen
Politico: Mitch McConnell opposed conviction in Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. [read post]
23 Sep 2022, 4:21 am by SHG
But it is a truth of American politics going back to the early days of the republic that partisan problems — like the one engineered by Mitch McConnell, Trump and the Federalist Society — demand partisan solutions. [read post]
22 Sep 2022, 6:17 am by Antara Joardar
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called former President Donald Trump “crazy” and vowed to never speak to him again, according to reporting for a new book. [read post]