The famously taciturn McConnell revered the Senate as a young intern long before joining its back benches as a freshman lawmaker in the mid-1980s. His dramatic announcement comes almost a year ...

including one young attorney from Northern Kentucky who made his first run for political office over 20 years ago and still ...

Senator Mitch ... voting record. McConnell's legacy is tied inextricably to the federal courts, particularly the current tilt of the U.S. Supreme Court. For years, the Republican stalwart has made it ...