The editors are joined by VF legal affairs contributor Cristian Farias to divine why the Supreme Court justice has bucked the ...

Conservative allies of President Donald Trump called Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett “evil,” a “closet Democrat” and a “DEI hire.” ...

Despite his decades towering over Washington as a top GOP leader, he is now eclipsed by President Trump’s takeover of his ...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been the object of the online right’s rage ever since she ruled against the Trump administration last week in its bid to freeze foreign aid payments.  But the person ...

The Senate leader’s iron rule held together a fractious GOP conference that ran from squishy centrist to hardline conservative — and somehow managed to deny Barack Obama the revolution he ...

Senator Mitch McConnell, a long-standing figure in the U.S. Capitol ... In October 2020, the GOP-controlled Senate confirmed ...

Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving party leader in Senate history, will not seek reelection in 2026, the senator announced Thursday.

Mitch McConnell will not seek reelection in 2026 ... only to fast-track Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett under similar circumstances in 2020 to ensure a conservative high court.

Senator Mitch McConnell, a long-standing figure in the U.S. Capitol ... In October 2020, the GOP-controlled Senate confirmed Justice Amy Coney Barrett by a 52-48 vote, a month after Justice Ruth Bader ...