Tag: Mitch McConnell

The real critical battles that will alter the balance on the court are yet to come. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

Former Scalia law clerk wants to ditch the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees, anticipates another court seat opening soon

Kevin Mooney · April 3, 2017 5:08 pm

Senate GOP poised to go nuclear

Susan Crabtree · April 3, 2017 2:06 pm

Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch was on the minds of Sunday talk show guests. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Sunday show wrap-up: Gorsuch, Russia and Nikki Haley dings the boss

Keith Koffler · April 2, 2017 5:58 pm

Schumer skated past the nuclear option and said President Trump ought to "try to get a mainstream nominee." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer: Senate will not hit 60-vote threshold on Gorsuch

Anna Giaritelli · April 2, 2017 2:54 pm

"We will confirm Judge Gorsuch this week," McConnell said. "Exactly how that happens will be up to our Democratic colleagues." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell: Gorsuch is ‘going to be confirmed’ this week

Anna Giaritelli · April 2, 2017 2:24 pm

Two Democratic senators have announced their intention to vote in favor of Gorsuch. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump presses Senate to confirm Gorsuch: ‘It’s about preserving our republic’

Sarah Bedford · March 31, 2017 4:57 pm

"If Judge Gorsuch fails to garner 60 votes, the answer isn't to irrevocably change the rules of the Senate," Schumer said. "The answer is to change the nominee." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer: It’s not Gorsuch ‘or bust’

Susan Crabtree · March 30, 2017 5:34 pm

McConnell says Gorsuch is so "non-controversial," Democrats have been forced to talk about other reasons to oppose him. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mitch McConnell: ‘Not one principled reason’ to oppose Gorsuch

Susan Crabtree · March 30, 2017 3:48 pm

The result would be that Gorsuch would require 50 votes instead of 60. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Republican support for ‘nuclear option’ for Gorsuch builds in Senate

Susan Crabtree · March 29, 2017 10:21 pm

House Republicans struggled Tuesday to revive legislation to repeal Obamacare but were no closer to bridging the intraparty differences that killed the initiative just days earlier. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Renewed Republican healthcare effort plagued by same old conflicts

David M. Drucker · March 29, 2017 4:01 am

"We are just going to see how that works out," McConnell said. "We believe it will not work out well." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell warns Obamacare ‘regretfully’ will stay in place ‘at the moment’

Susan Ferrechio · March 28, 2017 7:42 pm

President Donald Trump, flanked by Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., left, and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks during a meeting with Senators on his Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Washington Secrets

NRA guns for Gorsuch, targets Tester, McCaskill, Donnelly, Heitkamp

Paul Bedard · March 27, 2017 10:37 pm