In March 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tried to justify denying a vote on Obama’s nomination of DC Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland to replace Justice Antonin Scalia: “All we are doing is following the long-standing tradition of not fulfilling a nomination in the middle of a presidential year.”

There is no such tradition. The table shows the nine Supreme Court vacancies in place during election years in the Court’s post-Civil War era—once Congress stabilized the Court’s membership at nine and the justices largely stopped serving as trial judges in the old circuit courts. Those nine election-year vacancies (out of over 70 in the period) were all filled in the election year—one by a 1956 uncontested recess appointment and eight by Senate confirmation.

The grounds for that premise are obvious enough: Mitch McConnell’s audacious refusal to even consider confirming Barack Obama’s March 2016 nomination of Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy created by Antonin Scalia’s death just over a month earlier. That McConnell was acting strictly as a partisan warrior on this occasion was made clear in 2020, when he quickly discarded his stated prior opposition to presidential-election-year Supreme Court appointments and rushed Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation through the Senate just weeks before Trump was defeated by Joe Biden.

The super PACs' mundane names and the conspicuous absence of any mention of cryptocurrency, technology, or technology regulation in many of their advertisements thus far bely the industry’s claims that there is a substantial sector of crypto voters just waiting to be mobilized. Instead, it points to their more sinister belief that elections — and by extension, favorable regulations — are merely there for the buying

Ford is defending his decision to spend hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers' money to liberalize alcohol sales a little more than a year earlier than scheduled.

“He’s feeling the pressure of delivering on a promise that he’s failed to deliver on for six years — and now he’s willing to spend a billion dollars of our money to further his own political ends.”

Simulations indicate that changing all policy domains in all states to a fully liberal orientation might have saved 171,030 lives in 2019, while changing them to a fully conservative orientation might have cost 217,635 lives.

Trump’s view would effectively hand the president a dictatorship

participants say they expected to see “immigrants lined up…trying to cross over,” and now that they see no attempted invasion, no crowds, and no masses of immigrants, some are saying they’re not even sure why they bothered traveling to the event.

They’re complaining that organizers “don’t care about the border,” or about what participants had to sacrifice to make the trip — only about the cash flow

As prime minister would Poilievre still embrace the controversial use of bitcoin, which he has in the past?

"He's finished. It's over," said Barghouti. "The problem is that the alternatives are no different from him when it comes to any Palestinian issue. They differ with him on other matters, but when it comes to Palestinians, I don't see any peace camp in Israel."

The massive combined $5.3bn in donations, one of the largest acts of giving to non-profits in US history, will ensure that the Koch influence will continue to push the US to the right for years to come. Undermining government regulations is central to those ambitions.