{"id":270622,"date":"2020-10-02T01:41:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T05:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=270622"},"modified":"2020-10-02T01:41:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T05:41:47","slug":"mitch-mcconnells-legacy-is-a-conservative-supreme-court-shaped-by-his-calculated-audacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/02\/mitch-mcconnells-legacy-is-a-conservative-supreme-court-shaped-by-his-calculated-audacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell&#8217;s legacy is a conservative Supreme Court shaped by his calculated audacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_270623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-270623\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/118369814_3352161354822532_4614195611919649597_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-270623\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/118369814_3352161354822532_4614195611919649597_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/118369814_3352161354822532_4614195611919649597_n.jpg 675w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/118369814_3352161354822532_4614195611919649597_n-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-270623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This feat could hardly have been predicted when Senate Republicans elected McConnell their leader in 2006. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mitchmcconnell\/photos\/a.126004557438244\/3352161351489199\">photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mitchmcconnell\/\">Senator Mitch McConnell\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unless Democrats win both the White House and the Senate in November, abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/09\/28\/senate-judiciary-staffs-up-for-barrett-fight-422595\">about to finish his project of remaking the federal judiciary from top to bottom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of that achievement will outlive the 78-year-old Kentuckian, making it the biggest piece of his large legacy in Senate history.<\/p>\n<p>This feat could hardly have been predicted when Senate Republicans elected McConnell their leader in 2006. For most of the 40-plus years I have watched McConnell, first as a reporter covering Kentucky politics and now as a &lt;a href=&#8221;https:\/\/ci.uky.edu\/jam%2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless Democrats win both the White House and the Senate in November, abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":270623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-ai-cross-university-of-kentucky","mauthors-the-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270625,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270622\/revisions\/270625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}