In his long, largely unprincipled pursuit of power at any price, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has proved particularly adept at inventing constitutional principles and American history from whole cloth.
So it was when McConnell fabricated the claim that the Senate didn’t confirm Supreme Court nominees in presidential election years; and so it is today, when he opposes federal voting rights legislation on the grounds that it “assault[s]… the fundamental idea that states, not the federal government, should decide how to run their own elections.” …
Public opinion, Constitutional mandates and America’s history all converge in rendering McConnell’s state’s rights argument against federal voting laws specious. CONTINUED
Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill
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