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Mitch McConnell put on notice by defiant Kentucky governor as major deadline looms
A Senate Seat Suspended Between Secrecy and LawThe Real Power HereThis story is not about Andy Beshear’s “options.” It is about a Senate seat, a party machine, and a public kept at arm’s length while the consequences of one man’s condition ripple through federal power. Beshear cannot appoint anyone to Mitch McConnell’s seat. Kentucky law makes that plain. So when the article frames this like a governor’s strategic maneuver, it inflates the weakest actor in the scene and leaves the real structure intact.The actual power sits with the institutions that control vacancy, succession, and…
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