‘Mitch McConnell is the dark lord’: Senate GOP leader plays pivotal role in ending Roe

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Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fancies himself a player of “The Long Game,” as the title of his memoir would suggest, and while members of his caucus grapple with whether his extensive political machinations should remain the direction of the party moving forward, the lawmaker seemed more than pleased with the devious nickname his patient partisanship has earned him from across the aisle.

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned Friday through the Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a lot of consideration has been given to the multitude of events that had to occur before conditions would be met to satisfy that end. In his own words to Fox News Digital, a federal judiciary focus has been “the most consequential contribution I’ve been able to make to my country in the course of my career,” and for that, one law professor says “dark lord” McConnell has his fingerprints all over the ruling.

“He can’t even imagine how there could be something different for him to be doing,” Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig said of the senator’s consistency in confirmation efforts. “He thinks this is his job. I fear that thing the framers feared has come true… And Mitch McConnell, I think, is the poster child for that.”