{"id":107756,"date":"2025-02-05T16:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T00:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/05\/mitch-mcconnell-sure-knew-how-to-play-hardball-with-the-federal-judiciary\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T00:03:01","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-sure-knew-how-to-play-hardball-with-the-federal-judiciary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/05\/mitch-mcconnell-sure-knew-how-to-play-hardball-with-the-federal-judiciary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell Sure Knew How To Play Hardball With The Federal Judiciary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Mitch] McC<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"editor-post-featured-image__preview-image alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/Mitch-McConnell-620x407.jpg?resize=358%2C235&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"235\" title=\"\">onnell was very good at building a federal judiciary by and for conservative white men. His twin priorities were confirming as many Republican judges as possible, and blocking as many Democratic appointees as possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span>\u2014 Madiba Dennie, <a href=\"https:\/\/ballsandstrikes.org\/nominations\/mcconnell-interview-senate-democrats-federal-judges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">writing at Balls and Strikes<\/a>, about the legacy of Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the chamber for a record 18 years. In a recent interview McConnell, who<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2018\/04\/senator-mitch-mcconnells-career-high-stealing-a-supreme-court-seat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> famously<\/a> kept the late Antonin Scalia\u2019s Supreme Court seat open for over a year to prevent Barack Obama from appointing his replacement, defended his brazen tactics, saying he didn\u2019t \u201cbreak any rules,\u201d and there was \u201cnothing unconstitutional about it.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/mitch-mcconnell-sure-knew-how-to-play-hardball-with-the-federal-judiciary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch McConnell Sure Knew How To Play Hardball With The Federal Judiciary<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Mitch] McC<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"editor-post-featured-image__preview-image alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/Mitch-McConnell-620x407.jpg?resize=358%2C235&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"235\" title=\"\">onnell was very good at building a federal judiciary by and for conservative white men. His twin priorities were confirming as many Republican judges as possible, and blocking as many Democratic appointees as possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 Madiba Dennie, <a href=\"https:\/\/ballsandstrikes.org\/nominations\/mcconnell-interview-senate-democrats-federal-judges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">writing at Balls and Strikes<\/a>, about the legacy of Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the chamber for a record 18 years. In a recent interview McConnell, who<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2018\/04\/senator-mitch-mcconnells-career-high-stealing-a-supreme-court-seat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> famously<\/a> kept the late Antonin Scalia\u2019s Supreme Court seat open for over a year to prevent Barack Obama from appointing his replacement, defended his brazen tactics, saying he didn\u2019t \u201cbreak any rules,\u201d and there was \u201cnothing unconstitutional about it.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Mitch] McConnell was very good at building a federal judiciary by and for conservative white men. His twin priorities were confirming as many Republican judges as possible, and blocking as many Democratic appointees as possible. \u2014 Madiba Dennie, writing at Balls and Strikes, about the legacy of Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mitch-McConnell-620x407-ZCu9Nn.jpeg?fit=620%2C407&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}