Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr. is an American politician serving as Kentucky’s senior United States senator and as Senate Majority Leader.
He led opposition to stricter campaign finance laws, culminating in the Supreme Court ruling that partially overturned the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act in 2009.During the Obama administration, McConnell worked to withhold Republican support for major presidential initiatives, made frequent use of the filibuster, and blocked many of Obama’s judicial nominees, including Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.Under McConnell’s leadership of the Senate, Obama saw the fewest judicial nominees confirmed in the final two years of a presidency since 195152.
During the Trump presidency, Senate Republicans, under McConnell’s leadership, broke records on the number of judicial nominees confirmed; those nominees included Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, each of whom was confirmed to the Supreme Court.
