Hints and tips:
...Finally, do read my colleagues Gideon Rachman on the Squaukus over Aukus and Robert Shrimsley on the future of an increasingly rudderless and electorally doomed Conservative party — “the price of not policing...
...A report by special counsel Robert Hur this month reignited concerns about his age this month by saying Biden had a “poor memory”, even as Hur declined to charge him with any wrongdoing in connection with...
...Clarence Thomas is 75, Samuel Alito is 74 and Chief Justice John Roberts is 69....
...John Roberts pledged that his role as America’s chief justice would be to “call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat”. In practice the Roberts Supreme Court is both player and umpire....
...Its minority leader, Mitch McConnell, is 81. McConnell’s most senior colleague, Chuck Grassley, who is 90, recently put his name down to run again in 2028....
...Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, described her as “a towering figure in the history of American law”....
...Robert O’Brien, the former national security adviser who has continued to praise Trump, may well be in the mix for a top job....
...The best way to understand Trump’s appeal is to re-read Robert Penn Warren’s novel All The King’s Men, based on Huey Long, the Louisiana rabble rouser governor....
...Last Saturday, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, tried to pass a separate bill that would have reinstated the Ukrainian funding. He was blocked by Republican colleagues....
...Both majority decisions were written by Roberts....
...This year’s “longest lunch” will be helmed by chef Andrew McConnell of Gimlet at Cavendish House, which has been named one of the 100 best restaurants in the world....
...Paul Kane at the Washington Post has a deep dive into McConnell’s long history of health problems, and his equally long history of refusing to answer questions about them....
...As the conservative sociologist Robert Nisbet famously observed, “People do not come together in significant and lasting associations merely to be together....
...“A railroad strike would be bad,” Robert Reich, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and former US labour secretary in the Bill Clinton administration, tweeted....
...He will be joined by the Senate’s top Republican Mitch McConnell in a rare display of bipartisanship....
...So said Mitch McConnell, the senior Senate Republican just minutes after he voted to acquit the former president in his impeachment trial for that very act....
...“The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling . . . is courageous and correct,” said Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican....
...I remember working in the great Robert Peston’s political team back in the nineties, just out of the ‘97 election, in the days when we had fax machines....
...As the party’s Senate prospects wane, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, is probably the most frustrated person in Washington....
...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....
...The mooted gasoline tax relief “underscores how little the US has in its tool chest to influence oil prices”, said Robert Campbell, an analyst at consultancy Energy Aspects....
...Nor is Mitch McConnell [the Senate minority leader], by the way. So that’s why we shouldn’t have an arbitrary deadline of Wednesday.”...
...Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, called it a “bonanza for blue-state millionaires and billionaires”....
...Perhaps we simply have to wait, as Robert Paxton said in his classic The Anatomy of Fascism, for the fundamental nihilism of demagogues (which takes a fair amount of energy after all) to provoke a certain...
...Compromise is not what Mitch McConnell is about. “Getting the people to understand his offer and back it is the only chance he has of sustaining real progress....
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