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8 Jun 2024, 3:34 pm by Tom Smith
I simply do not believe that in an honestly held traditionally run presidential election that Joe Biden would get 181,866 more votes for President in 2020 in Pennsylvania than Barack Obama got in 2008. [read post]
7 Jun 2024, 10:08 pm by Steven Calabresi
In 2008, Barack Obama got 3,276,363 votes for President in Pennsylvania. [read post]
5 Jun 2024, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
”The indictment, von Spakovsky continued, “represents the ultimate weaponization of the Justice Department, a transformation started by President Barack Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, and completed by Garland, to take out a viable political opponent of Garland’s boss and political patron, President Joe Biden. [read post]
5 Jun 2024, 6:05 am by Maria J. Stephan
Each major attempt to advance multi-racial democracy in the United States, whether through Reconstruction, the civil rights movement, or the election of Barack Obama and the modern-day Movement for Black Lives coalition, has been met with violent authoritarian backlash. [read post]
29 May 2024, 6:54 am by Jonathan H. Adler
This Adam Liptak interview with Tatel suggests much the same: Judge Tatel said his retirement was linked to a lesson he drew from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's decision to remain on the bench despite calls for her to step down in time to let President Barack Obama name her successor. [read post]
23 May 2024, 2:06 pm by Ilya Somin
But more conventional politicians, including left-wing ones like Barack Obama, engage in such chicanery, as well. [read post]
14 May 2024, 7:55 am by Richard Frank
An important footnote to this litigation is that three successive presidential administrations–Barack Obama’s, Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s– have all vigorously opposed  the Juliana plaintiffs’ attempts to obtain a trial on the merits of their “impressive case for redress” (according to the Ninth Circuit), instead working (successfully) to squelch the Juliana lawsuit on procedural grounds. [read post]
11 May 2024, 9:05 pm by Ariel Breitman
Department of Energy and as special assistant to President Barack Obama for regulatory policy and then as Deputy White House Counsel overseeing legal policy. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 1:28 pm
Pecker also said AMI helped obtain and suppress stories about the actor Mark Wahlberg and Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama's first chief of staff and later the mayor of Chicago.Would all those men be monsters too — Schwarzenegger, Woods, Wahlberg, Emanuel — if their antagonists could just heap up all the stories the Enquirer killed for pay? [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 3:45 am by jonathanturley
Finally, if there is no immunity, could President Barack Obama be prosecuted for ordering the killing of a citizen by drone attack and then killing his son in a second drone attack? [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 3:16 pm by Mark Walsh
In the bar section, Neal Katyal, a former acting U.S. solicitor general under President Barack Obama is here, as is Seth Waxman, a former solicitor general under President Bill Clinton. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 2:14 pm by Susan Schneider
President Barack Obama, the 2021 Congressional Hunger Center Trailblazer Hunger Leadership Award and the Tim Wapato Public Advocate of the Year Award from the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 6:05 am by Delaney Simon
President Joe Biden’s annual listing rate is nearly double that of President Trump and triple that of President Barack Obama, and he has listed approximately one third of all parties currently on U.S. sanctions lists, according to the law firm Gibson Dunn. [read post]
23 Apr 2024, 11:53 am by Steven Calabresi
When President Barack Obama ordered the killing of a known terrorist by a Predator Drone Strike, which accidently led to the death of a U.S. citizen who was physically near that terrorist, President Obama could not be prosecuted for that act because the death of the American citizen was an unintended consequence of President Obama's legitimate exercise of his executive power as Commander in Chief. [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 10:09 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  No matter what anyone said, McConnell would serenely repeat again and again that "the people" should decide who would nominate a Supreme Court justice, even though the people had done so when they put Barack Obama back in office for a second four-year term.But again, is it not true that Democrats lie? [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 6:31 am by Amy Howe
And although Trump suggests that modern presidents like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama could be criminally prosecuted for launching military or drone strikes overseas, he does not point to any criminal statutes that those presidents or others might have violated. [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 12:22 pm by Eric Fruits
President Barack Obama fully pulled off the mask in 2014, when he announced “[w]e are not just going to be waiting for legislation,” declaring “I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone. [read post]