During his first term, Trump stacked the Supreme Court with hard right judges creating a 6-3 split that led to the ...

No one in the GOP has done more to push the U.S. Supreme Court to the far right than Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), who ...

Despite his decades towering over Washington as a top GOP leader, he is now eclipsed by President Trump’s takeover of his ...

Daniel Cameron once said there was no political daylight between him and Sen. Mitch McConnell. Now, Kentucky’s former attorney general is keeping his distance as he vies to win his longtime ...

“I’m avoiding getting too high on the good days and too low on the bad days,” Mitch McConnell was telling me. “Is today a good day or a bad day?” I asked him. “Yeah,” was all ...

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Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced in February ... left by the 2016 death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Obama selected Merrick Garland to fill the seat, but McConnell declared any appointment by ...

Mitch McConnell, perhaps the greatest strategist ... McConnell refused to give Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland a Senate vote. This act, well within his constitutional authority as majority ...

Senator Mitch McConnell stood on the Senate floor last week on his 83rd birthday to announce that he would not seek an eighth term as Kentucky’s senior senator in 2026. “My current term in the ...

When Mitch McConnell took to the floor of the US ... both a Senate hearing and a Senate vote to Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland. To justify that refusal, McConnell invented a spurious Senate ...