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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]
30 Dec 2016, 8:22 pm
” But it is increasingly unclear if that is still Barack Obama. [read post]
30 Dec 2016, 11:13 am
President Barack Obama’s announcement of a new set of anti-Russian sanctions. [read post]
30 Dec 2016, 10:38 am
In that year the U.S. made three vital decisions that, from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama, have guided the nation’s way: to enter World War I and thus abandon U.S. isolation from global affairs; to employ the notion of human rights to justify American intervention in faraway conflicts; and to fight danger on foreign soil to prevent threats from reaching our continental home. [read post]
30 Dec 2016, 8:18 am
"... he will have one man to thank for bequeathing him such expansive power: Barack Obama," writes James Risen in the NYT. [read post]
30 Dec 2016, 4:38 am
In The Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh discusses the pending cert petition in the case of Nebraska financial advisor and tea party activist Bob Bennie, who states that government regulators retaliated against him after he criticized President Barack Obama; Volokh maintains that the petition “isn’t just about correcting the error in this case; rather, the real question here is how appellate courts should make decisions about what would ‘chill an ordinary… [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 9:30 pm
MARCH President Barack Obama nominated Chief Judge of the U.S. [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 5:17 pm
President Barack Obama, over the past few months, appointed several men and women to serve on key boards, commissions, and committees that impact cultural heritage policy. [read post]
29 Dec 2016, 1:40 pm
(credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) In an executive order issued today, President Barack Obama used his emergency powers to impose sanctions on a number of Russian military and intelligence officials and also to eject 35 Russians labeled by the administration as intelligence operatives. [read post]
