In the photo above are the easily-identified Senator Mitch McConnell and the not as easily-identified federal Judge Justin Walker, 37, who is giving the U.S.
Senate Republican Majority Leader a fist bump. The occasion of the unusual greeting was McConnell delivering a speech at Walker’s “investiture,” or official installation as a federal judge back in March.
Over the past decade or so Senator McConnell has tried to shape his legacy with three singular focuses. During the Obama era the Senate