cnsnews.com - 11/25/2008
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(CNSNews.com) - Federal judicial nominees selected because of their ability to empathize with politically correct groups must show that they will not deviate from their solemn oath to execute the law, even when it runs counter to their personal preferences, said Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at ...
motherjones.com - 11/21/2008
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motherjones.com —
Washington Dispatch: Addressing the Federalist Society, the top
Senate Republican went light on the red meat—except when...
it came to judges. By Stephanie Mencimer November 20, 2008 Having narrowly survived his reelection campaign, Senate minority ...
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Why is Mitch McConnell Being Nice to Obama?
thehill.com - 11/21/2008
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thehill.com —
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday
sent a message to Democrats that Republicans are not...
prepared to bend to a stronger majority. In letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), McConnell urged Reid to adopt a more conciliatory ...
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McConnell warns Reid to give GOP input
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/20/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
DEMS HURT MCCONNELL'S FEELINGS?.... I can appreciate the
fact that the Senate operates with a certain degree...
of cordiality, but surely members realize that when the election season comes, party leaders on both sides want to increase the size of...
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Dems hurt McConnell's feelings?
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Mitch McConnell Warns Barack Obama on Judicial Nominees
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... The top Senate Republican, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), told a conservative legal group that Senate Republicans would hold President-elect Barack Obama's nominees for federal judgeships to time honored standards of judicial temperament and qualification. McConnell was careful to say that Republicans would not resort to "extra-Constitutional" means to block Obama's appointees, as Democrats did to more than a dozen of President Bush's judicial nominees. But he did signal that the smaller Senate Republican caucus has no intention of allowing Obama to fill the courts ...
Mitch McConnell Going Moderate? I Wouldn't Count On It
DownWithTyranny! —
... , though, is that as long as Obama adopts Republican policy positions, he'll go along with him. Last week he promised the radical right Federalist Society that he would do his best to undermine President Obama's judicial nominees. According to McConnell "judicial nominees who have identified themselves with political causes in line with the interests of favored groups, including some of the politically correct ones identified by Obama during the presidential campaign, might not be able to keep their oath to uphold the law." I kind of think the Times was a little naive in ...
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