Mitch McConnell

Throughout his career, the Kentucky Republican has alternately set, controlled, constrained, and derailed the congressional agenda with a degree of mastery ...

He knows he doesn’t really have a moral red line, and he knows that the people who keep him in power don’t care one iota if he does or doesn’t to begin with. Ultimately, I suppose, the fact that McConnell won’t — and in all likelihood can’t — define his moral red lines doesn’t make much of a difference. The whole exchange is notable in large part for the degree to which McConnell drops his carefully constructed folksy persona, moment by moment, the more Swan highlights his obvious dissonance.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said during an Axios NewsShapers interview with Jonathan Swan that he'd be obligated to support former President Trump ...

For the Kentucky senator, his list of concerns is as follows: It doesn’t matter if he dispatched a violent mob against his own country’s Capitol. It doesn't even matter if he's corrupt and incompetent. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said during an Axios NewsShapers interview with Jonathan Swan that he’d be obligated to support former President Trump despite the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol if the GOP renominates him for president in 2024.... They’re elected by the Republican voters.” But it was after Trump’s defeat that the relationship collapsed. When the senator tried to explain how government worked, a “ profane shouting match“ soon followed.

Underneath it all Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump are the same: ruthless, self-serving, power hungry brutes.

He, of course, did not hate seeing it and we know this because of reports from many people on that day who tried and failed to get him to step up and call off the dogs. And apparently, tens of millions of people are susceptible to this monumental cascade of bullshit. But McConnell still has the sense that people might think there is something wrong with being an amoral monster so he obfuscates. But in Trumpworld all you have to do is say what you want reality to be and it is. Mitch McConnell, on the other hand is an old school snake, who doesn't outright lie, he slithers around the questions, carefully telling the press only what he wants them to know. Dawsey got Trump to sit down for an interview the day after the party and he clearly had an agenda. "I hated seeing it," Trump said of that day. I don't think we'll ever know if he said it to get the crowd to go down there and storm the place or if it just sounded good to him in the moment to say he would "lead" them, but had he really wanted to do it, he could have. Joe Biden won the election fair and square but among these people, proof is in the eye of the beholder. He drives his golf cart on to the green so he doesn't have to walk six feet. Here's an example of it from former congressional accomplice and current CEO of Trump Media Devin Nunes: Their public approach to getting it couldn't be more different but I have a suspicion that if they both end up back on top they'll find a way to get what each of them wants.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became the newest Supreme Court Justice after a 53-47 vote.

By this I mean, there was a law that was enacted in Michigan in 1931 that explicitly says that abortion is illegal and the law still exists. But it's the first one that has passed recently that explicitly says that abortion is a felony. Vermont actually became the first state to attempt to do this. Oklahoma earlier this week passed a law that says that abortion is illegal. She just filed a lawsuit to protect abortion rights under the Michigan constitution ahead of a possible overturn of Roe vs. And then the second one is actually looking at a pre-Roe abortion ban that exists in the state. The first one is to ask the Michigan Supreme court to explicitly say that abortion rights are protected under the state constitution. JONATHAN SWAN: Yes. Mitch McConnell is signaling in this interview through his non-response that he is at least contemplating refusing to hold hearings on any Joe Biden nominee for the Supreme Court. And you’ll remember that he did that in 2016 to Barack Obama for Merrick Garland. So what we could be seeing is McConnell's leaving open the door to create a new standard. Which is condemning President Trump's role in the January 6th insurrection, which he did immediately after January 6th, but then later also supporting President Trump. How did he explain that contradiction to you? JONATHAN: He basically didn't, he just refused to answer the question and I set this up by saying, you know, what are your moral red lines? The nays are 47 and this nomination is confirmed. A historic moment yesterday in the Senate, where Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became the newest Supreme Court Justice after a 53-47 vote.

Asked during an appearance on Fox News Thursday night whether he would allow a Supreme Court nomination to go through if a vacancy opened up and Republicans ...

But again, the Garland instance in instructive here. It's worth noting here that there were no Supreme Court vacancies at the time Biden delivered his remarks. In announcing his selection of Garland, Obama nodded to this moderation. Garland had a long-built reputation as a moderate. "Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president." Which is a step beyond even where McConnell had previously drawn his line on high court nominations.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has again said he'd back Donald Trump if the former president were to win the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, citing an ...

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