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18 Jun 2009, 3:00 am
Following up on Sunday's post, Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Mary Smith to Head DOJ Tax Division Over Fierce Republican Opposition: the Blog of Legal Times reports that Justice Department Says Tax Nominee is Qualified: The Department of Justice is defending President Barack Obama's contentious nominee to head its Tax Division,... [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 8:57 am
Although the deputy press secretary reaffirmed [transcript] earlier this week that US President Barack Obama "agrees with the Attorney General's opinion that ... he and others [read post]
3 Aug 2016, 4:06 pm
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday cut short the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 life sentences, in what the White House called the largest batch of commutations on a single day in more than a century. [read post]
17 Apr 2009, 1:55 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama on Thursday asserted his intention [statement] not to investigate individuals who used or authorized enhanced interrogation techniques the same day the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] released memos [JURIST report] outlining CIA use of these techniques. [read post]
17 Nov 2008, 11:16 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] said [HRW press release] Monday that upon inauguration US president-elect Barack Obama [official website] should immediately denounce the previous administration's "abusive" counterterrorism policies in order to bring US practices into accordance with the country's "basic values" and its own obligations under international law. [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 12:10 am
When Barack Obama becomes president in January with a strongly Democratic Congress, he'll have the chance to push a technology policy that relies more on government subsidy and regulation than that of his immediate predecessor. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 6:05 pm
The NY Times has published some of the exam questions given by Barack Obama during his time teaching law school at the University of Chicago. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 3:09 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama signed an executive order [text] Wednesday continuing a prohibition on the use of federal funds for abortion [JURIST news archive] except in cases of rape or incest or where a woman's life would be endangered. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 11:00 pm
Nineteen atheist and humanist groups yesterday sent a letter to President-elect Barack Obama urging him to oppose discrimination against atheists, agnostics, humanists, and other nontheists by declining the title of Honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America. [read post]
4 Nov 2008, 7:29 am
" The campaign did upload some videos that fall into the category of regular political advertising, as well as excerpts from Barack Obama and Joe Biden's appearances at the day's events. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 10:16 pm
President Barack Obama’s ambitious plan to overhaul U.S. immigration policy for millions of foreign nationals living in the U.S. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 9:50 am
President Barack Obama has called on the Federal Communications Commission to lay down “the strongest possible rules” to protect net neutrality, saying that internet service providers should not be allowed to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 1:01 pm
Barack Obama is antsy. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 8:02 pm
Johnson says he's backing Barack Obama because he's bi-partisan and wants to bridge differences between the two parties. [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 8:47 pm
Eugene Robinson is practically breathless with the enormity of Obama's presumptive victory: There will be plenty of time to chart Barack Obama's attempt to navigate a course between the exigencies of the old politics and the promise of the new, between yesterday and tomorrow, youth and experience, black and white. [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 9:46 pm
Illinois Democrat Barack Obama and Arkansas Republican Mike Huckabee surged to victory in the Iowa caucuses Thursday evening, buoyed by popular support that was bolstered by Internet activism andorganization. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 12:00 am
Barack Obama, D-Ill., underscored his affinity with Democratic centrists this week when he tapped Jason Furman, who worked closely with former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, to be his director of economic policy. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 9:50 am
Anyone who has tried to engage a member of that age cohort in an argument probably recognizes the four basic teenage tropes, which also are the only arrows in Obama’s overrated rhetorical quiver. [read post]
30 Oct 2008, 7:09 pm
The Mizzou campus is all atwitter today over a scheduled appearance this evening by the world's biggest celebrity — my old constitutional law prof, Barack Obama. [read post]
15 Dec 2016, 11:54 am
A bill renewing US sanctions against Iran for another 10 years because law Thursday without President Barack Obama's [official website] signature. [read post]
