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6 Jan 2017, 1:43 pm
“We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election,” said the report, which is a declassified version of a longer, classified document the CIA, FBI and NSA prepared at President Barack Obama’s request…Friday’s report, for the first time, directly accused Russia of handing over material from the DNC servers and Podesta’s account to WikiLeaks. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 12:52 pm
President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump have now been briefed on the classified version of the report. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 12:13 pm
The International Entrepreneurship Rule was established on the basis of President Barack Obama’s Executive Order and does not require Congressional action. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 9:18 am
(credit: Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images) On Thursday, NBC News broadcast a report claiming to have exclusive details from the top-secret version of the intelligence community report on Russian hacking and information warfare activities delivered to President Barack Obama—a report scheduled to be delivered by intelligence officials to President-elect Donald Trump today. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 2:35 pm
(credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) In a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee—a regularly scheduled unclassified briefing on "foreign cyber threats"—Director of National Intelligence James Clapper did very little to preview a report on Russian "cyber" activities around the US elections scheduled to be delivered to President Barack Obama this week. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 2:16 pm
In one of the weirder political coincidences in recent memory, digital archives for President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump launched within hours of each other on Thursday. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 10:05 am
The Harvard Law Review generally comes out on the first Thursday of the month, and this month’s has an interesting lead article: “The President’s Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform,” by Barack Obama. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 8:11 am
Access the contents of the January 2017 issue of The Harvard Law Review: Via this link, featuring a Commentary by President Barack Obama on criminal justice reform and many interesting Recent Cases notes. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 7:07 am
5 Jan 2017, 4:27 am
” In The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin reports that President Barack Obama’s nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court expired at noon on Tuesday, “clearing the way for President-elect Donald Trump to fill a vacancy Senate Republicans held open for months with an appointee championed by conservatives”; he notes that “Judge Garland’s nomination did make history in at least one sense” – the “293… [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 6:40 am
While it wasn’t the first political plagiarism scandal, both Barack Obama and John McCain were accused of plagiarism in the 2008 election, it was the first to happen at such a big stage and, worst of all, from a political opponent. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 3:29 am
” In The Economist, Steven Mazie notes that the “unheralded but important role of the district-court judge was the theme of Chief Justice John Roberts’ end-of-year report,” but that “in his homily, the chief justice judiciously ignored the elephant in his own courtroom—the empty chair Senate Republicans successfully blockaded after Antonin Scalia’s death last February” — and “papered over the political fight concerning dozens of… [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 7:43 pm
Barack Obama has been one of our most decent and intelligent presidents. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 3:47 pm
Nearly 300 days ago, on a sunny March morning, President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland, the chief judge of the U.S. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 10:43 am
If there’s any single statement that Barack Obama probably wishes he could undo, it was his mockery of Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential debates. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 9:34 am
Democrats accused Republicans of “stealing” a nomination that voters entrusted to President Barack Obama in his 2012 re-election.No funny business of the type discussed here and here happened.I wish Merrick Garland well in his continued service on the Court of Appeals, and I thank President Obama for not doing anything bizarre in the transition from the old to the new Congress today. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 7:51 am
He had to stand naked to take a shower, and there's something I want to tell you about that shower, and it connects to Barack Obama, but first I have to tell you about the time LBJ didn't have to stand naked but chose to:On a hot, sunny day in 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson had just delivered a stump speech during his campaign for the presidency. [read post]
2 Jan 2017, 3:02 am
Tags: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, executive orders, judges, wage and hour suits, WO writings Fighting the last war, on courts and executive power is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
31 Dec 2016, 1:52 pm
Both Barack Obama and George Bush also pushed the limits of executive power in dangerous ways.Had Hillary Clinton won the election, it would not have been desirable to let her control a fully unitary executive either. [read post]
31 Dec 2016, 12:05 am
Jeffrey MayAs 2016 comes to a close, a number of important trends in antitrust have emerged that will likely have lasting effects on competition law enforcement in the coming years. [read post]
