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Mar 1, 2024 · His manipulation of the Senate rules helped create a Supreme Court majority that will likely last a generation; his refusal to convict a president he himself denounced as a...
Sep 1, 2023 · Mitch McConnell, who has announced he will step down from his role as Senate GOP leader, was an uncharismatic Kentucky lawyer who came to rule the Senate and remake the US Supreme Court.
Mitch McConnell was Senate minority leader during Obama's first term (111th and 112th Congresses - not shown below) and the first half of his second term (113th Congress - shown below dimmed out). McConnell became Senate majority leader for the 114th-116th Congresses.
- McConnell’s Political Rise
- Business, Not Service
- McConnell’s Supreme Court
It was audacious, back in 1977, to think that a wonky lawyer who had been disqualified from his only previous campaign for public office could defeat a popular two-term county executive in Louisville. McConnell ran anyway. It was audacious to think that a Republican could get the local labor council to endorse him in that race, but he got it, by le...
In politics, lack of emotion is usually a drawback. McConnell makes up for that by having command of the rules and the facts and a methodical attitude. The recording on his home phone once said, “This is Mitch McConnell. You’ve reached my home. If this call is about business, please call my office.” Business. Not something like “my service to you i...
McConnell’s caucus trusts him. When he saw Obama as an existential threat – someone who could bring back enough moderate Democrats to give the party a long-term governing majority – McConnell held the caucus together in opposition to Obamacare, and Republicans used that as an issue to rouse their base in the 2010 midterm election. Meanwhile, McConn...
Feb 29, 2024 · Measured by how many bills he successfully ushered into law, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who announced Wednesday that he will step down as Republicans’ Senate leader in...
- Ian Millhiser
Jul 6, 2021 · There’s a push to add justices to the Supreme Court so as to counteract the conservative majority McConnell helped forge, and to do away with a filibuster rule that requires 60 of the...
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Feb 29, 2024 · Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell announced yesterday that he will step down as minority leader after this November's election. He still intends to serve out his term through 2026.
