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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]
5 Mar 2024, 4:38 pm by Steven Calabresi
Presidency to Barack Obama, in 2012, again because of his outsourcing of American jobs to China as a businessman and because he implausibly claimed to be the leading social conservative in the race never bothering to explain his change of mind from 1994. [read post]
31 Jan 2024, 10:39 pm by Olya Gurevich
In a 2014 speech, former US president Barack Obama stated, “Africa should stop blaming history for its economic problems. [read post]
19 Dec 2023, 2:02 pm by Mark Walsh
Bush; and Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, who served under President Barack Obama. [read post]
14 Dec 2023, 10:01 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  But you're the president, and now you want to blame some lawyers for not doing your job for you? [read post]
2 Nov 2023, 7:05 am by Alex de Waal
On the U.S. presidential campaign trail in 2008, Barack Obama and his team criticized the George W. [read post]
19 Oct 2023, 11:11 am by Neil H. Buchanan
"  That claim has, of course, in turn been scrutinized, but the less harsh assessment was hardly exculpatory: "[H]e didn't prop them up but didn't shut them down either. [read post]
29 Sep 2023, 6:36 am by cassieq
Raúl Héctor Castro: First Mexican-American Governor of Arizona (1916-2015) Raúl Héctor Castro was the first Mexican-American to serve as the governor of Arizona. [read post]
18 Sep 2023, 5:55 am by Oona A. Hathaway
President Bush’s successor, President Barack Obama, ran for office in part based on a more constrained view of presidential war powers. [read post]
2 Sep 2023, 8:54 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Cir. 2018) (per curiam) ("The district court correctly concluded that appellant lacked standing to challenge President Barack Obama's qualifications for holding office. [read post]
31 Aug 2023, 10:40 am by Jonathan H. Adler
There were extensive challenges to Barack Obama and Ted Cruz (among others) in administrative tribunals and courts. [read post]
1 Aug 2023, 11:09 am
Murguia, an appointee of President Barack Obama, welcomed judges to the four-day conference, which is the second one held since the COVID-19 pandemic forced its cancellation in 2020 and 2021. [read post]
22 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
When a radicalized political faction throws out all convention, then only unconventional responses remain, whether Biden and his advisors like it or not.After his first fatefully unwise decision to negotiate with Republicans over the debt ceiling in 2011, President Barack Obama realized that the smart response to subsequent attempts at hostage-taking was to refuse to engage with his radically irresponsible opponents. [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
Making such an announcement when the debt ceiling was not even on anybody’s radar screen would have been politically disruptive, potentially throwing off other priorities with what might have seemed like an unnecessary provocation.But because of what we observed during all of the debt ceiling battles during Barack Obama’s presidency, we were convinced that waiting to act would inevitably put the country back in exactly the position in which it now finds itself.… [read post]
16 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
  We hope that President Joe Biden will continue to treat the debt ceiling as non-negotiable, in particular because losing his nerve now would only encourage a repeat of this mess in the very near future, with Republicans inevitably expanding their demands in each successive manufactured crisis.If Republicans refuse to see reason, the least-bad possible outcome—among a range of outcomes that would all be rightly described as constitutional and economic crises of epic… [read post]
15 Mar 2023, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
(This last example reminds me of a manufactured controversy coming out of my original home state of Ohio in 2008, when a conservative troll complained that Barack Obama had supposedly created “O” flags that looked too much like the US flag. [read post]