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22 Aug 2023, 6:06 am
Another conservative legal critic, Stanford’s Michael McConnell, suggested it is dangerous to exercise the law as laid out in the Constitution as perhaps all political protests could suffer. [read post]
28 Jul 2023, 4:00 am
McConnell was out of the Senate for almost six weeks earlier this year after falling and hitting his head. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 2:30 am
Mike Corder reports for AP News. [read post]
5 Jun 2023, 1:50 pm
Mike Lee or Rand Paul to filibuster: Leaders Schumer and McConnell had the votes to end debate, but doing so would have taken several days, possibly preventing final passage before the June 5 deadline Secretary Yellen had announced. [read post]
15 May 2023, 9:05 pm
As Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently observed, the United States has not defaulted on its national debt since its founding in 1789, and we should not start now.[1] She also pointed out that Congress has raised the statutory ceiling to pay the debts that it has authorized almost 80 times since 1960.[2] This time might be different, however, because Republicans, with a bare majority in the House, are playing a sustained game of chicken with the White House. [read post]
14 May 2023, 2:31 pm
(Here again, I’m indebted to Mike Dorf.) [read post]
12 Mar 2023, 9:31 am
While the pundits continue to speculate whether President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and President Joe Biden put national security at risk by hoarding these secrets, that ultimately might not be the biggest problem. [read post]
10 Mar 2023, 3:00 am
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]
8 Mar 2023, 8:12 am
Mike Rounds and John Thune, South Carolina Sen. [read post]
16 Feb 2023, 9:59 am
In his State of the Union address, Biden specifically criticized the plan published by Florida Senator Rick Scott -- who, we should not forget, was once forced to resign as CEO of a company that was convicted of 14 felony counts of defrauding Medicare, in what was at the time the largest Medicare fraud in history -- but of course it has not been difficult to find examples of Republicans saying things that they are now frantically trying to explain away.As I discussed in my column yesterday,… [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 4:38 am
Ben Hubbard, Raja Abdulrahim, Safak Timur, Vivian Yee and Mike Ives report for the New York Times. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 10:32 am
Mike wrote a thoughtful piece about the case yesterday. [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]
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]
30 Oct 2022, 9:01 pm
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]
20 Oct 2022, 9:12 am
Again, this was a Truss situation, not a Walker situation, because Mike Pence was in waiting. [read post]
18 Aug 2022, 4:02 pm
That means that, for the purposes of that column, I was not looking at Mitch McConnell, Bill Barr, or any of the others who are abetting Trump's push toward a dictatorship.There are, at all times, governors and U.S. [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 4:30 am
I grew up just a few miles from Mike and I hated the Yankees with a passion and still do, and I'm indifferent to the Mets. [read post]
12 Aug 2022, 8:54 am
Had Trump been expeditiously impeached, convicted, and removed from office after he fired James Comey in 2017, Mike Pence would have had almost a full term in the Oval Office, during which time he would have nominated the same judges and justices that the Federalist Society told Trump to appoint. [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 4:46 am
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had committed to the leaders of both countries that the Senate would approve the ratification resolution as fast as possible to bolster the alliance “in light of recent Russian aggression. [read post]
