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The ultimately successful, if extremely messy, Senate confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is the unlikely and intriguing outcome of two disparate men invisibly working together, though they could hardly be more different - President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell was born in Alabama, raised in Kentucky and thanks to the demanding therapy of his mother, overcame the crippling physical restrictions of childhood polio so well he became a formidable baseball player.
President Trump is known as a "populist" president who was elected by appealing to "the forgotten man" - the hard-working, taxed-to-death middle class people whose interests are usually diametrically opposed to the political elites of both parties. The label of populism seems especially appropriate with regard to his foreign policy of pursuing peace with Russia and North Korea, judging by the vicious and apoplectic reaction to it by the deep state elite, some of whom have called for the president's execution for treason.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, talks with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., before his speech at the McConnell Center's Distinguished Speaker Series Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, in Louisville, Ky. less Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, talks with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., before his speech at the McConnell Center's Distinguished Speaker Series Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, in ... more The Capitol Dome of the Capitol Building at sunrise, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018, in Washington.
"Everyone I spoke to was shocked and had never heard of anything like this," said Amy Robertson, who works for the Shelbyville Public Defender's office. "Everyone I spoke to was shocked and had never heard of anything like this," said Amy Robertson, who works for the Shelbyville Public Defender's office.
Justice Neil Gorsuch speaks to an audience as a guest of Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., at the University of Louisville, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, in Louisville, Ky.
Kentucky is down to only one clinic that performs abortions: the EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville. A trial kicking off Wednesday morning in federal court in Louisville will decide whether Kentucky will become the first state without a single such clinic.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Inside the famed vaults at Fort Knox, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell held a 27-pound gold bar in his hands Monday as part of the first civilian delegation to see most of the country's bullion reserves in more than 40 years.
A protester and an escort who ensures women can reach the clinic stand outside the EMW WomenOs Surgical Center in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. January 27, 2017. LOUISVILLE, Kentucky - Patricia Canon drives poor rural Kentucky women to distant abortion clinics each week, part of a national army of volunteers who are growing bolder even as abortion foes ratchet up opposition to the activists they have branded as "accomplices to murder."
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In this Friday, March 31, 2017, file photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., addresses an audience during a rally in Boston. Sanders will headline a Louisville event aimed at helping re-energize Kentucky's downtrodden Democratic Party.
A Donald Trump supporter who allegedly assaulted a young woman during a campaign rally last year is claiming the president is to blame in his response to a lawsuit against him. Alvin Bamberger, 75, who is accused of shoving protester Kashiya Nwanguma at a Louisville, Kentucky, rally on March 1, 2016, alleges in a cross claim filed Friday that he would not have touched the woman had then-candidate Trump not urged his supporters to remove protesters from the venue.
In this Dec. 1, 2015 file photo, then-Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear speaks in Louisville, Ky. Democrats have tapped Beshear to deliver the party's response to President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, highlighting the Kentucky Democratas efforts to expand health care coverage under the law Republicans are determined to repeal and replace.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Loud cheers filled the Van Hoose education center Tuesday night after Jefferson County School Board members passed the Safe Heaven Resolution.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. After President Trump's executive order on immigration caused uproar and demonstrations at airports across the country, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer is planning a rally to celebrate immigrants.
A new bridge spanning the Ohio River between Indiana and Kentucky has been named after the 19th Century explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The new Lewis and Clark Bridge, which was previously known as the East End Crossing, opened to traffic Sunday.
In 2013, then-Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor to excoriate the Obama administration's environmental policy and its impact of coal jobs in eastern Kentucky. Noting a recent listening session in Pikeville, Kentucky, McConnell sought "to put a human face on the suffering that is being felt in Appalachia due in large part to this administration's war on coal."
In this July 28, 2016, file photo, a color blending feature of the Galaxy Note 7 is demonstrated in New York. An overheated Samsung device created smoke that caused a plane to be evacuated at Louisville International Airport on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 an official said.
JUNE 10: Dr. Kevin Cosby speaks at a memorial service for boxing legend Muhammad Ali on June 10, 2016. LOUISVILLE, KY - JUNE 10: Guests look on during a memorial service for boxing legend Muhammad Ali on June 10, 2016 at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky.