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31 Aug 2023, 7:24 pm by Rick Hasen
Andy… Continue reading The post “What Happens if Mitch McConnell Retires Before His Senate Term Ends? [read post]
8 Aug 2010, 7:42 pm by Greg Siskind
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says that he's not aware of anyone who wants to alter the 14th Amendment (uh, did you just wake up from a coma and miss the last two weeks?). [read post]
6 Nov 2020, 7:16 am by Howard Bashman
“America’s new power couple: Mitch and Joe; How a Biden presidency and McConnell-led Senate might actually get along. [read post]
2 Sep 2019, 11:36 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The latest missive to the court, submitted yesterday, comes in the form of a letter from Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and 52 colleagues. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 10:45 am by Tom Smith
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said it appears unlikely another COVID-19 relief deal will be reached in the near future, saying that Republicans and Democrats are “very far part” on spending. [read post]
26 Jan 2021, 12:22 pm by Associated Press
Easing off a stalemate, the Senate moved forward Tuesday with a power-sharing agreement in the evenly-split chamber after Republican leader Mitch McConnell backed off his demand that Senate Democrats preserve the procedural tool known as the filibuster. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 5:04 am
[JURIST] US Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) [official website] said [press release] Tuesday that the Obama administration doesn't have a plan to deal with detainees at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] once the facility closes. [read post]
18 May 2009, 12:28 am
[JURIST] US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) [official website] said Sunday that he wants the Supreme Court [official website] nominee who will replace retiring Justice David Souter [JURIST report] to be someone who will apply the law without bias. [read post]
30 Dec 2021, 6:44 pm by Howard Bashman
Mitch McConnell’s un-conservative plea to the Supreme Court”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) swirling around the capital these days based on some of his recent awkward public appearances, attention has been focused on the statute in place in McConnell’s home state of Kentucky that deals with filling Senate vacancies. [read post]
20 Sep 2020, 2:17 pm by Tom Smith
Less than two hours after the news of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death — and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s vow to try to replace her with a nominee picked by President Donald Trump — the progressive movement was activated. [read post]
30 May 2019, 5:10 am by Howard Bashman
Mitch McConnell’s Grand Plan Was Obvious All Along; The Senate majority leader’s assertion that his election-year blockade of Merrick Garland doesn’t apply to 2020 shouldn’t come as a surprise”: Russell Berman of The Atlantic has this report. [read post]
10 Nov 2020, 9:02 am by Tom Smith
President Trump should not be expected to “cheerfully, immediately” accept the outcome of the contested 2020 race and is “100 percent within his rights” to challenge the results, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a speech from the Senate floor on Monday. [read post]
11 Jan 2022, 7:16 am by Associated Press
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans are stepping up a personal campaign to persuade Maryland Gov. [read post]
26 Jan 2021, 5:35 am
Schumer, quoted in "McConnell Relents in First Filibuster Skirmish, but the War Rages On/Senator Mitch McConnell dropped his demand that Democrats promise to preserve the procedural weapon that can grind the Senate to a halt, but with President Biden’s agenda in the balance, the fight is not over" (NYT).Senator Mitch McConnell... had refused to agree to a plan for organizing the chamber without a pledge from… [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]
23 Feb 2016, 6:21 pm by Tom Smith
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told a group of staunch House conservatives there isn't "a snowball's chance in hell" that he will back down from his opposition to confirming a Supreme Court justice before a new president is elected. [read post]
27 Nov 2012, 12:50 pm by jleaming@acslaw.org
by Jeremy Leaming Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has stridently led obstructionism since Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008. [read post]