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...The Senate could have tried harder to ram through former president Barack Obama’s selection to replace Scalia, Merrick Garland, who was blocked by Republican Mitch McConnell....
...Mitch McConnell has said that publicly. But you know, Kevin McCarthy, the Republican minority leader for now, who could potentially become the House speaker very soon....
...“The bumper sticker would say, we’re past the V,” says Michael Gapen, chief US economist at Barclays, referring to the shape of the recovery since the shocking collapse last year....
...Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, has declined to say Joe Biden has won the election....
...McConnell’s protégés, who on Thursday was confirmed to a lifetime seat on the influential DC Circuit Court of Appeals....
...A “leftwing wish list” is how Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, describes the bill that passed the House of Representatives this month....
...(FT) Recovery, brought to you by the letter V, or maybe W Mapping economic output to familiar shapes makes a good deal of sense....
...However, both Mr McConnell and Democratic leader Chuck Schumer have bristled at the idea....
...The V&A carried off the prize in 2016....
...It all adds up to what Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, described as a “wartime level of investment”. She does not concede the premise of my question....
...“I doubt very much the court will overrule Roe v Wade or Obergefell, or do many of the other things that Kavanaugh’s partisan detractors are predicting,” Mr McConnell adds....
...The judge has refused to say he would vote to uphold the Roe v Wade ruling that gives women the right to abortion....
...Mr Trump has previously said he planned to appoint justices who would overturn the landmark ruling Roe v Wade, which legalised abortion in the US....
...One of his most consequential votes was on Bush v Gore, the controversial ruling that handed George W Bush the White House in 2000....
...Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, has pledged to have Mr Trump’s nominee in place for the Supreme Court’s session beginning in October, ahead of midterm elections the following month....
...Its response so far has come from the standard playbook: threatening retaliatory sanctions in politically sensitive areas (bourbon from Kentucky, the home state of Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader...
...“I requested that Mitch M & Paul R tie the Debt Ceiling legislation into the popular V.A....
...Mr McConnell can count on 52 Republican votes, eight short of the number needed to end debate....
...Democrats are worried that Mr Trump will assemble a majority to overturn the landmark 1973 abortion rights case Roe v Wade....
...Mr McConnell’s position seems indefensible. The US constitution gives the president the power to nominate Supreme Court justices, and Mr Obama has 11 months left in office....
...So Michael adopted me, and I chose the name: Pat Lyn McConnell. We had to move quickly....
...Seven years earlier his opposition to reform led to the Supreme Court case McConnell v Federal Election Commission....
...To be fair to McCain, he has actually been very principled in his opposition to torture – so perhaps the debate is better phrased as libertarians v neocons; or isolationists v interventionists....
...Sir, I am saddened that Shaun Read’s enjoyment of the first day of the recent England v South Africa Test match at Lord’s was undermined by what he felt was general little appreciation by spectators for...
...Both Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, and Orrin Hatch, a colleague on the judiciary committee, have supported an appeal by 13 Republican state attorneys-general to overturn a key aspect of...
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