The health of Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell has been a concern over the last year or so. He has frozen and zoned out in the middle of press conferences, that happened in 2023, and on Wednesday he ...

Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in April 1913, changed the manner in which our U. S. Senators are selected. Prior to the Amendment ...

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State ...

This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913 ...

Or perhaps, if this focus was directed towards the due functioning of the Constitutional Council (CC) itself, set up under the 17th Amendment to ensure non-politicised appointments to public bodies ...

Whether the Equal Rights Amendment is—right now—part of the ... but also in those proposing the Twelfth and Seventeenth Amendments, Congress included operative language that modified the ...

Appointed senators: They’re a thing. Of the 206 individuals appointed to the Senate since 1913, when the 17th Amendment codified direct election of senators and how to fill vacant seats ...