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...Clarence Thomas is 75, Samuel Alito is 74 and Chief Justice John Roberts is 69....
...Mitch McConnell froze (again) and struggled to answer questions yesterday. After the incident, a spokesperson said McConnell had felt “momentarily lightheaded”. What to watch The Supreme Court....
...“Liberals think that what Thomas and Alito have done is abominable....
...Thomas Jefferson urged the prosecution of Burr, Wood argued, precisely because he feared the consequences for the republican experiment if nakedly corrupt politics were permitted to undermine disinterested...
...Thomas Kuhn famously introduced the concept of a “paradigm shift” in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions....
...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....
...Several Democratic lawmakers have since called for Thomas to recuse himself from cases relating to the election and the January 6 attack....
...The Politico report said Alito was joined by at least four other conservative justices in siding with Mississippi — Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch....
...A cursory reading of the leading conservative Supreme Court justices, notably Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, shows a religiously-inspired revulsion against modernity....
...“The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling . . . is courageous and correct,” said Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican....
...“The debt ceiling increase has not been signed into law yet . . . but it seems like the market is dismissing any potential risk of default,” said Thomas Simons, a money market economist at Jefferies....
...Clarence Thomas, an avowed conservative appointed in 1991, is the second-oldest on the bench — and 10 years Breyer’s junior....
...Writing to James Madison from Paris, two months after the fall of the Bastille, Thomas Jefferson doubted that “one generation of men has a right to bind another.”...
...Thomas Hale...
...One way Mr Biden could sell higher investment spending to Mr McConnell would be to avoid any talk of tax increases — a McConnell red line....
...“Unless we win both these Senate seats in Georgia (runoff elections on January 5), Mitch McConnell is going to be the leader of the Senate, which means it’s going to move things towards the centre,” Mr Ryan...
...Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, who joined yesterday’s negotiations, said he was determined to deliver a deal before members of Congress leave Washington for the holidays....
...He also negotiated a tax deal with Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, with whom he will probably have to contend again in 2021....
...As Mitch McConnell reminded Democrats again and again during his five years as Senate majority leader: holding a congressional majority is the only currency that really matters in Washington....
...McConnell’s protégés, who on Thursday was confirmed to a lifetime seat on the influential DC Circuit Court of Appeals....
...But Steny Hoyer, the Democratic House majority leader, called House members back to Washington late Thursday, after Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman from Kentucky, suggested he would request a “roll...
...Mr McConnell has said that senators will be allowed to consider whether to call additional witnesses at a later point in the impeachment proceedings....
...Thomas Keller’s French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley took aim at its insurer for an alleged failure to cover coronavirus-related business losses....
...Of the furore over the future of the Supreme Court, Mr McConnell had this to say: “The sky is always said to be falling, and it never falls.”...
...On Monday, a visibly incensed Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, accused Democrats of a “shameful smear campaign”, saying they deliberately kept Ms Ford’s allegations “secret”....
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