“The Frist fairness rule guarantees up-or-down votes for every circuit court or Supreme Court nomination, regardless of which party controls the Senate or the White House.”

American politician and attorney

Addison Mitchell McConnell III is an American politician and attorney. He has served as a United States senator from Kentucky since 1985 and has been the state's senior senator since 1999. A Republican, McConnell has served in his seventh Senate term and is the longest-serving senator in Kentucky history. He led the Senate Republican Conference from 2007 to 2025, including one term as majority leader and two as minority leader, and became the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history.