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11 Nov 2008, 11:45 am
[JURIST] Advisers to US President-elect Barack Obama [official website] emphasized Monday in the wake of press reports that Obama has not made a decision regarding the future of the military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] and its prisoners, despite an earlier Associated Press story [text; JURIST report] that Obama strategists had begun working on a plan to hold criminal [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 8:20 am
Juan Cole, Informed Comment: Obama pwns Bush-Cheney on Iran; First day of Talks Yields Significant Confidence-Building Steps: Barack Obama pwned Bush-Cheney in one day, and got more concessions from Iran in 7 1/2 hours than the former administration got in 8 years of saber-rattling. [read post]
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: 11 Stunning Revelations From Larry Summers’ Secret Economics Memo To Barack Obam…
23 Jan 2012, 3:31 pm
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: 11 Stunning Revelations From Larry Summers’ Secret Economics Memo To Barack Obama. [read post]
22 Jan 2017, 9:00 am
Barack Obama Needs a New Job, So We Sent Around His Academic Résumé: It can be tough out there for an academic who’s been out of the game for so long, and Mr. [read post]
19 Apr 2014, 10:00 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] on Friday signed into law [legislative materials] a bill [text] that bars entry for any UN ambassadors who have engaged in "terrorist activity." [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 8:16 am
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough [official profile] told [Fox News report] Fox News Sunday that President Barack Obama [official profile] intends to fulfill his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility before leaving office. [read post]
4 Jun 2016, 1:24 pm
US President Barack Obama [official website] on Friday commuted [press release] the sentences of 42 inmates convicted of drug offenses as part of his ongoing efforts toward criminal justice reform [materials]. [read post]
20 Jan 2009, 7:09 am
[JURIST] Delivering his inaugural address [text] Tuesday in Washington DC shortly after taking the oath of office [text] as the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama [official website] insisted that his administration would pursue US national interests without sacrificing basic legal principles enshrined in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. [read post]
2 Mar 2014, 12:35 pm
[JURIST] During a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, US President Barack Obama condemned [press release] Russia's violation of Ukrainian sovereignty after Russian forces had taken up positions in Ukraine. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 2:20 pm
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] signed legislation [HR 4348, PDF] on Friday that prevents the interest rate on student loans from increasing and maintains jobs on infrastructure and transportation projects nationwide. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 3:35 pm
President Barack Obama’s creative use of executive power set a precedent that President Donald Trump is now exploiting. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 6:19 am
US President Barack Obama [official website] signed [press release] legislation [HR 2576 text, PDF] Wednesday granting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website] power to regulate thousands of everyday substances. [read post]
6 Feb 2009, 4:35 am
President Barack Obama's crackdown on Wall Street pay contains loopholes, and may have limited impact in restraining compensation, according to press reports. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 8:29 am
[JURIST] US Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff [official profile] on Sunday told [transcript text] the BBC that before closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], President-elect Barack Obama must have a plan for dealing with the detainees. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 11:05 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] nominated three individuals [press release] to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) Thursday, which had been vacant since 2007. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 1:30 pm
WASHINGTON — A short-handed and deeply divided Supreme Court deadlocked Thursday on President Barack Obama’s immigration plan to help millions living in the U.S. illegally, effectively killing the plan for the rest of his presidency and raising the stakes even further for the November elections. [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 12:42 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] on Tuesday signed into law the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) [materials], intended to stimulate and grow the US economy in the current recession. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 12:50 pm
US President Barack Obama on Thursday signed [press release] the Every Student Succeeds Act [text, PDF] into law. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 12:11 am
[JURIST] A military judge on Wednesday suspended for 120 days [order, PDF] the military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] against five alleged 9/11 co-conspirators [DOD materials], including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], granting a request [motion, PDF; JURIST report] by lawyers acting at the behest of President Barack Obama [official [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 8:45 am
US President Barack Obama made the case [remarks] for overhauling the nation's sentencing laws on Tuesday in front of top law enforcement officials at the 122nd Annual International Association of Chiefs of Police [official website] Conference and Exposition. [read post]
