Addison Mitchell McConnell III is an American politician and retired attorney serving since 1985 as the senior United States senator from Kentucky. McConnell is in his seventh Senate term and is longest-serving senator in Kentucky history. He served from 2007 to 2025 as the leader of the Senate Republican Conference,including two stints as minority leader,and was majority leader from 2015 to 2021,making him the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history.
McConnell v. Federal Election Commission,540 U.S. 93 (2003),is a case in which the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of most of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA),often referred to as the McCain–Feingold Act.
In the United States Senate,the nuclear option is a parliamentary procedure that allows the Senate to override a standing rule by a simple majority,avoiding the two-thirds supermajority normally required to invoke cloture on a measure amending the Standing Rules. The term "nuclear option" is an analogy to nuclear weapons being the most extreme option in warfare.
Danny Julian Boggs is an American lawyer and a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He was appointed to the court in 1986 and served as its chief judge from September 2003 to August 2009. Boggs was on the short list of President George W. Bush's candidates for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The McConnell Center is an endowed institution created in 1991 by U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell,and the University of Louisville.
David L. Huber is an American attorney who is the retired United States attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
Karen Kaye Caldwell is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
The 1996 United States Senate election in Kentucky was held on November 5,1996. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell won re-election to a third term with a 12.6% margin of victory over Democrat Steve Beshear,who later successfully ran in 2007 and 2011 for Governor of Kentucky.
David Louis Bunning is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Bunning is the son of former Republican Senator Jim Bunning,a Hall of Fame baseball pitcher who represented Kentucky in the United States Senate from 1999 to 2011.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Kentucky took place on November 4,2014,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Kentucky,concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky were held on Tuesday,November 6,2012,to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of Kentucky,one from each of the state's six congressional districts. The elections will coincide with the elections of other federal and state offices,including a quadrennial presidential election. Primary elections were held on May 22,2012.
Julien Xavier Neals is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
John Gilpin Heyburn II was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. Heyburn served as the Chief Judge of the Court between 2001 and 2008.
On March 16,2016,President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Antonin Scalia,who had died one month earlier. At the time of his nomination,Garland was the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The 2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky was held on November 3,2020,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Kentucky,concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate,elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Senator Mitch McConnell,who had been Senate Majority Leader since 2015 and senator from Kentucky since 1985,won reelection to a seventh term in office. He faced off against former U.S. Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath and Libertarian Brad Barron.
The Hemp Farming Act of 2018 was a proposed law to remove hemp from Schedule I controlled substances and making it an ordinary agricultural commodity. Its provisions were incorporated in the 2018 United States farm bill that became law on December 20,2018.
Justin Reed Walker is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2020 as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He previously was a U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky from 2019 to 2020.
Daniel Jay Cameron is an American attorney and politician who served as the 51st attorney general of Kentucky from 2020 to 2024. A member of the Republican Party,Cameron was the first African American and the first Republican since 1943 to be elected to the office. He was also the Republican nominee in the 2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election,losing to Democratic incumbent Andy Beshear.
Charnelle Marie Bjelkengren is an American lawyer who has served as a judge of the Spokane County Superior Court since 2019. She is a former nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington.
John David Preston is an American politician and author from Kentucky who served in various elected and judicial offices. He was a member of the Kentucky Senate from 1994 to 1997,representing Kentucky's 25th Senate district,which at the time included Johnson,Lawrence,and Boyd counties.
