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30 Jan 2023, 7:57 am
The Public Papers has covered the administration of every U.S. president from Herbert Hoover to Barack Obama (minus FDR, due to the private publication of his papers before the launch of the series). [read post]
30 Jan 2023, 7:57 am
Of course, skeptics might not be assuaged if these bench trials were all presided over by judges appointed by Barack Obama or Joe Biden. [read post]
30 Jan 2023, 5:49 am
President Barack Obama pledged to take the United States off of a perpetual war footing and publicly introduced exacting standards for the use of force outside “areas of active hostilities,” yet his foreign policy legacy is inextricably tied to controversies around drone warfare and failure to close the detention facility at Guantanamo. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 10:21 am
Fed and Treasury officials held an emergency meeting shortly before the first debt ceiling drop-dead date (the one in which Barack Obama caved and rewarded the hostage-takers) and said that they "had jointly developed and codified the procedures" to pay principal and interest. [read post]
24 Jan 2023, 1:14 pm
For the past several days, USA Today has had a post up with the headline:Fact check: Biden did have the authority to declassify documents as vice presidentIt goes on to say:Legal experts told USA TODAY that Biden had the authority to declassify documents as vice president as the result of a 2009 executive order signed by President Barack Obama.Further down there is a link to the executive order. [read post]
21 Jan 2023, 3:12 am
In 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the HIRE Act. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 6:56 am
For the 30th anniversary of Bush 41's departure from the White House, David Priess chatted with Becker about how she first came to work with First Lady Barbara Bush, how that led to her work as chief of staff for Bush after he'd left office, the diverse activities of a lengthy post-presidency, former presidents' interactions with intelligence and classified material, Bush 41's choice to refrain from frequent political statements, his relationships with other… [read post]
18 Jan 2023, 10:53 am
[Barack Obama, Merrick Garland, Kathy Hochul, and Hector LaSalle walk into a bar.] [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 3:45 am
” Namazi, a US citizen, had been arrested in October 2015 but excluded from a prisoner swap between the US and Iran on January 16, 2016 under former President Barack Obama. [read post]
9 Jan 2023, 1:40 am
In 2011, President Barack Obama declared that May 1, since the late 1950s celebrated as “Law Day,” would be dedicated to “The Legacy of John Adams: From Boston to Guantanamo. [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 5:00 am
That was the case last year when Barack Obama bizarrely called himself “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist” before calling for sweeping censorship and media controls over expression. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 6:46 am
The threats from Republicans recall brinkmanship in 2011, when congressional Republicans sought to pressure President Barack Obama to accept similar spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 7:38 pm
Compare that to the assessment of Jeh Johnson, former President Barack Obama's head of homeland security, who once said 1,000 encounters a day constituted a crisis. [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm
Under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, this country voted no.When this year’s resolution was discussed in a U.N. committee, the United States again voted against it.A representative of the United States explained that vote as follows: “International human rights law establishes clearly that Member States may, within certain established parameters, use this form of punishment as confirmed by Article 6 of the ICCPR (International Covenant of Civil and… [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 11:35 am
The National Archives wants to release hundreds of pages of emails about Hunter Biden and Burisma — and the White House won't say whether it will let it happen.By Mattathias Schwartz, Business Insider, Dec. 14, 2022 The emails are from 2014, when President Joe Biden served as vice president under former President Barack Obama.The White House now has 60 days to decide whether to stop the release of the emails by invoking executive privilege. [read post]
12 Dec 2022, 3:00 am
In speaking to media figures in April, former President Barack Obama called upon “our better angels” to shape voters’ opinions. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 8:11 am
Bush, Bob Dole, Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and John McCain. [read post]
5 Dec 2022, 1:48 pm
Bush and Barack Obama also committed their share of constitutional sins. [read post]
5 Dec 2022, 9:40 am
Can you speak a little about your almost two years as the Special Assistant to President Biden for Climate Policy and your time with the Department of the Interior under Presidents Obama and Clinton? [read post]
4 Dec 2022, 5:20 am
Can an agency properly invoke the deliberative process privilege to shield internal deliberations over a sham memo requesting that another agency take action, knowing that the recipient agency will use the request to hide the real reason for its contemplated action? [read post]
