Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks with reporters following a closed-door policy lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, June 14, 2022. McConnell set the strategy to confirm conservative judges, and transform the federal judiciary in motion, engineering the Supreme Court's makeover by blocking President Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland and changing the Senate's rules to easily confirm Trump's picks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
