Elizabeth MacDonough
Elizabeth MacDonough is an American lawyer who has been the parliamentarian of the United States Senate since 2012. The first woman to hold the position, MacDonough guided the Senate through the first and second impeachment trials of Donald Trump.
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Jun 11, 2026
Lean Right
Senate parliamentarian MacDonough is at the center of the SAVE America Act fight after Trump called for her firing to bypass Senate rules blocking the bill's passage.
From a lean-right perspective, an unelected procedural official blocking a duly elected majority's agenda is exactly the kind of administrative-state obstruction that erodes faith in democratic representation.