Feb 3, 2025 · Under his leadership, the Senate confirmed three Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices and more than 200 lower-court judges, tilting the courts in favor of conservatives for a...

Oct 29, 2024 · A remarkably fair book on Mitch McConnell describing his rise to power despite adversity (polio, divorce, covering Kentucky from a blue to red state), and his fall from favor from the GOP as it moved from an establishment ruled party to the Maga faction.

Oct 29, 2024 · The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history. In the long history of...

Oct 24, 2024 · Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history, is set to step down from that position next month. Over nearly two decades in the role, he has become one...

Oct 28, 2024 · In revealing detail, Tackett describes how McConnell slowly earned the respect and gratitude of his fellow Republican senators to become the longest-serving Senate leader of any party; gave us...

Nov 19, 2024 · The conservatives on the Supreme Court, in their Citizens United decision, had created a financial pipeline that McConnell built into a vast political ecosystem. It played to all of McConnell’s strengths: the politics, shorn of the weedy details of policy.

Dec 2, 2024 · The book was written by Associated Press reporter Michael Tackett, and its title is The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party. It was published by Simon & Schuster in November of 2024.

Oct 24, 2024 · In revealing detail, Tackett describes how McConnell slowly earned the respect and gratitude of his fellow Republican senators to become the longest-serving Senate leader of any party; gave us the most conservative Supreme Court in almost 90 years, doing away with federal abortion rights; then put himself in the minority of a party transformed ...