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9 May 2024, 5:09 am by Beatrice Yahia
In a joint letter to the president, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said it was a “dangerous” move that would embolden Israel’s enemies. [read post]
” The letter, dated April 24, 2024, was signed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as well as Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas; Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee; Katie Boyd Britt of Alabama; Ted Budd of North California; Kevin Cramer of North Dakota; Ted Cruz of Texas; Bill Hagerty of Tennessee; Pete Ricketts of Nebraska; Marco Rubio and Rick Scott of Florida; and Tim Scott of South Carolina. [read post]
2 May 2024, 5:53 am by Tom Joscelyn
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican Leader, for instance, voted to acquit but stated that Trump “is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day. [read post]
29 Apr 2024, 4:20 am by Yosi Yahoudai
”Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, in an interview that aired Sunday, called it “a dangerous situation” and placed the responsibility with college administrators. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 2:45 pm by Tom Lynch
” —  Mitch McConnell, 13 February 2021, minutes after […] [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 9:00 am by Josh Blackman
As history played out, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky remains in office, so this issue was never tested. [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 10:09 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  And the earlier-vintage claim that the IRS "targeted conservatives" at the direction of the Obama White House is in the repeat-it-until-you-believe-it Hall of Fame.And just for one last golden oldie, there was Mitch McConnell's pre-Trumpian lie about "the Biden rule" (which did not exist) to justify refusing even to hold a hearing on President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to an open Supreme Court seat. [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 8:24 am by David Super
  Imagine having negotiated a bill with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and having been thoroughly owned in the process. [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 4:00 am by Eric Segall
    SCOTUS AS A NUMBERS GAMEThere has been a lot of discussion from the left about adding three or four seats to the Court to make it more liberal and to undo the harm caused by Mitch McConnell's norm-breaking manipulation of the Court's vacancies. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 8:15 pm by Ilya Somin
Examples include former Vice President Mike Pence and GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 3:02 pm by Jason Rantanen
To anyone just learning about judge shopping, it might be surprising to see the likes of Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer sparring over arcane rules of judicial case assignment. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 2:46 pm by lennyesq
But after significant pushback from Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Judicial Conference clarified that the guidelines were voluntary. [read post]
26 Mar 2024, 11:04 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  And when Mitch McConnell hatched the cynical idea of simply refusing to hold a vote on Barack Obama's nominee to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, people were stunned to learn that the Constitution's "advise and consent" clause was so general that it could be ignored.The Twenty-Second Amendment is similarly poorly drafted. [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and two of his fellow Republican Senators sent letters (like this one) to the chief judges of districts containing single-judge divisions arguing disingenuously that the Judicial Conference lacks the authority to set case-assignment policy, while the obvious real motivation for their objection was their wish to preserve judge-shopping opportunities for ideologically aligned red-state attorneys general and private plaintiffs.The Underlying… [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 6:05 am by Brian Finucane
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) explained his support for the measure in similar terms: Countries which choose to blockade the delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance exponentially increase the cost of that assistance. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 6:05 am by Brian Finucane
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) explained his support for the measure in similar terms: Countries which choose to blockade the delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance exponentially increase the cost of that assistance. [read post]
14 Mar 2024, 7:52 am by Dan Farber
  LCV score of 7%, just below Mitch McConnell’s lifetime score of 9% s third of Susan Collins’s score. [read post]
9 Mar 2024, 8:29 am
And a few months after Trump's prominent fear-mongering, exactly that may have happened to Mitch McConnell’s sister-in-law. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 12:51 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  And that would mean that anyone who can change the form of their income from salaries into appreciating assets could be subject neither to income taxation nor wealth taxation.Will this Mitch McConnell-created majority on the Court go there? [read post]