Mitch McConnell

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• 11/1/2020
  

  Reconsidering "Court Packing" as Restoring Governing Norms

  by Greg Bailey

  The Republicans' choice to push through Amy Coney Barrett's nomination with the backing of a minority of the country means a new Congress must consider corrective action in the name of justice and democracy.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  4/12/2020
  

  How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief

  by Jane Mayer

  Finally, someone who knows him very well told me, “Give up. You can look and look for something more in him, but it isn’t there. I wish I could tell you that there is some secret thing that he really believes in, but he doesn’t.”

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  7/8/19
  

  Sen. Mitch McConnell's great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home

  No news articles were found in which McConnell has previously spoken of his ancestors being slave owners. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-25-18
  

  Trump is right: Mitch McConnell is one of the greatest Senate leaders of all time

  by Ross K. Baker

  Liberals don’t have to like McConnell, but they should recognize his skill.

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• 9/15/18
  

  These 15 GOP Senators from the Past Could Show Mitch McConnell and His Colleagues How to Do the Job

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  The list includes liberals, conservatives and moderates.

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• SOURCE: Political Wire
  10-11-17
  

  McConnell Moves to Speed Approval of Judges

  “No longer will ‘blue slips’ be allowed to deny a nominee a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and vote on confirmation.”

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• SOURCE: Tonic
  6-23-17
  

  Mitch McConnell Refused to Meet With Group That Funded His Polio Recovery

  by Jesse Hicks

  He received treatments as a child at FDR’s Warm Springs. But turned his back on the March of Dimes when they came calling.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2-9-17
  

  Silencing Elizabeth Warren: Gag rules have a long, dark history

  by Manisha Sinha

  When Sen. Mitch McConnell declared of Sen. Elizabeth Warren that "she was warned" and yet "she persisted," he sounded like a throwback to a time when conservatives sought to silence abolitionist women like the Grimke sisters, and before them the black woman abolitionist Maria Stewart, who dared to speak out against slavery.