Roll CallMitch McConnell's legacy in Senate sits in the nation's courts - Roll Call
- Bias Rating
- Reliability
65% ReliableAverage
- Policy Leaning
50% Medium Right
- Politician Portrayal
-22% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
65% : At the swearing-in ceremony for Barrett, just days before the 2020 election, Trump said: "Our country owes a great debt to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.60% : And then Donald Trump won the 2016 election.
56% : During a September 2020 presidential debate, Trump said that his judicial confirmations were "maybe the most important" thing about his first term.
54% : McConnell made judicial confirmations his top priority and changed the Senate filibuster rules to lower the threshold needed for Supreme Court nominees.
50% : Trump was able to appoint a total of 234 federal judges, including 54 appellate judges, shepherded through the process by McConnell.
38% : As majority leader during the last two years of President Barack Obama's presidency, McConnell used his control of the Senate to slow judicial confirmations to all but a trickle.
34% : Although McConnell's partnership with Trump helped him shape the courts, the pair have a publicly rocky relationship.
22% : " Ultimately the Supreme Court, including the three justices McConnell helped confirm, ruled last year ahead of Trump's victory in the election that Trump was immune to most criminal charges.
9% : In 2018, then-White House Counsel Don McGahn told a gathering of conservative lawyers that McConnell orchestrated the opportunity for Trump to reshape the courts with conservative judges by blocking Obama's judicial picks and leaving Trump with a large number of judicial vacancies to fill.
5% : During Trump's second impeachment trial after the 2021 attack on the Capitol, McConnell blamed Trump for the attack but ultimately argued against conviction.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.
