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29 May 2024, 6:54 am
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]
22 May 2024, 8:01 am
DACA was established in 2012 by former President Barack Obama’s administration. [read post]
14 May 2024, 7:55 am
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]
28 Apr 2024, 4:55 am
The whole room was rocking as was then President Barack Obama. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 2:14 pm
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
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]
16 Apr 2024, 12:22 pm
The Obama administration moved to shift broadband from Title I to Title II. [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 4:00 am
National/Federal Woman Sentenced to Month in Prison Over Theft of Ashley Biden’s Diary DNyuz – Adam Goldman (New York Times) | Published: 4/9/2024 A federal judge sentenced Aimee Harris to a month in prison for her role in a brazen scheme to steal the diary of President Biden’s daughter and sell it to a right-wing group in the hope of disrupting the 2020 election. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
This happened in 2008 and again in 2020; the Republican candidate (John McCain and Donald Trump, respectively) won the statewide vote handily, but the Democratic nominee (Barack Obama and Joe Biden, respectively) picked up one of the five electors, for having won one of the three congressional districts.This is not the first time Republicans have tried to revise Nebraska’s method of elector allocation to enhance the prospects for the Republican party. [read post]
9 Apr 2024, 12:06 am
First known for coining the term “net neutrality” in 2002, he served in President Joe Biden’s White House as special assistant to the President for technology and competition policy from 2021 to 2023; he also had worked on competition policy for the National Economic Council during the last year of President Barack Obama’s administration. [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 11:21 am
Unlike previous administrations that have mainly put prosecutors and Big Law attorneys on the bench, Biden has nominated individuals with civil rights advocacy and public defense backgrounds. ...Biden broke President Barack Obama’s record for appointing the highest number of circuit judges with public defense backgrounds to the bench. [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm
Stymied by rejectionists in Congress, President Barack Obama unilaterally adopted the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for the Dreamers; President Donald Trump could not get the funding he wanted to build a wall at the southern border without paying a political price he deemed too high, so he diverted funds appropriated for other purposes; President Joe Biden has tried several ways to engineer student debt forgiveness without the statutory changes he cannot get… [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 11:35 am
In the movie, Leave the World Beyond, produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, hackers attack the U.S. including through thousands of hijacked Teslas that pile up on roadways. [read post]
16 Mar 2024, 6:16 am
Moderated by Professor Ryan Goodman, the panel consisted of Jameel Jaffer, the Executive Director of Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and Executive Editor of Just Security; Kathryn Ruemmler, the Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Goldman Sachs and former White House Counsel to President Barack Obama; and Colin Stretch, the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Etsy and former General Counsel of Facebook (now Meta). [read post]
13 Mar 2024, 9:37 am
Recent issues of major public concern (the COVID pandemic; threats to the secure administration of federal elections) have engendered a wave of mis- and disinformation, often spread virally through social media platforms. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 5:14 pm
Former President Barack Obama started this recent descent into the criminalizing of politics when his Justice Department, on totally spurious grounds, began a secret criminal investigation of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign when he was still just a candidate for office. [read post]
4 Mar 2024, 9:51 am
For example, there might be disputes over the accuracy or validity of a candidate's birth certificate (recall "birtherist" claims that Barack Obama wasn't really bon in the United States, and that his birth certificate was fake). [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 9:26 am
Accessed February 26, 2024. https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/vice-president-harris/ [5] Andrea Wurzburger, “Vice President Kamala Harris’ Career in Photos,” People, October 20, 2023. [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 9:00 am
The potential for the President of the United States to “federalize” the National Guard has recently returned to the spotlight – arising out of ongoing domestic political tensions at the southern border and promises and plans made during a presidential campaign. [read post]
19 Feb 2024, 7:41 am
Barack Obama’s embrace of climate action. [read post]
