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29 Dec 2020, 10:39 am by David J. Clark
In October 2016, during the closing weeks of the Obama Administration, the DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a remarkable document, entitled Antitrust Guidance for Human Resources Professionals, which outlines an aggressive policy, promising to investigate and punish employers, and even individual Human Resources employees, who enter into unlawful agreements concerning recruitment or retention of employees. [read post]
Nearly one year to the day after the Bush administration landed on “countering violent extremism” as the proper terminology, Obama was sworn in as president. [read post]
Under former President Barack Obama, the agency in 2016 announced its official finding that GHG emitted as a result of airplane emissions “cause or contribute to air pollution that may be reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health and welfare of current and future generations. [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 9:03 pm by Series of Essays
Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed a rule that could weaken an Obama-era regulation that imposed more stringent wastewater restrictions—commonly referred to as effluent limitations—on coal burning power plants in an effort to reduce the amounts of harmful contaminants entering Americans’ drinking water. [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 4:45 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The Trump Administration jettisoned the Obama playbook…The third and final chance to contain the infection—masks—was the easiest, the cheapest, and perhaps the most effective. [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 4:33 pm by Steve Kalar
  How about another shot for a great President Obama nominee, whose nomination expired with the 114th Congress? [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 12:47 pm
Here's a story worth reading: how the U.S. got -- if not universal health care -- something close after a century of trying and failing. [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 9:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Legislators might remember that when the Austin-bashing bills come up: He could come for your guys next.Anyway, Texas' defund-the-task-forces campaign required many years of steady, persistent, opportunistic advocacy work, including years-long litigation that launched careers: The main civil case coming out of Tulia was steered by Innocence-Project-of-Texas founder Jeff Blackburn and Vanita Gupta, who went on to lead the Civil Rights Division in Obama's DOJ and now runs the… [read post]
24 Dec 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Compared to other Republican nominees not running against Obama, Trump did not compare as favorably. [read post]
A Texas-led coalition of nine states urged Tuesday a federal judge to invalidate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), arguing that DACA was unlawfully created by former President Barack Obama. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 5:30 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
This is a reversal from what Twitter did in 2017 when the Trump administration took over accounts from the Obama administration. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 3:19 pm by David Super
  For example, many of the Affordable Care Act’s failings may be traced to President Obama’s insistence that its gross cost not exceed $1 trillion (even though all those costs would be paid-for). [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 9:26 am by Jim Dempsey
For example, the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act (CEA) of 2014 required NIST to develop a cybersecurity framework for critical infrastructure, but President Obama had already directed NIST to do so in Executive Order 13636, signed in February 2013. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 7:30 am by Amanda Frost
Oddly, however, Braver does not include in his analysis the Senate’s refusal in 2016 to confirm any nominee to the Supreme Court during President Barack Obama’s final year in office. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 6:34 am by Robert Kraft
Even before the coronavirus crisis, the agency took steps to limit the use of some fines and strike an Obama-era mandate requiring nursing homes to bring on at least part-time infection preventionists. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 12:00 am by Andrew Brockman
., is a longtime aide of former President Obama, serving as the President’s chief of staff from 2013 to 2017. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 12:00 am by Andrew Brockman
., is a longtime aide of former President Obama, serving as the President’s chief of staff from 2013 to 2017. [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 5:31 pm by Howard Bashman
“Texas Challenges Legality of DACA in Latest Bid to End the Program; Judge to revisit case over Obama-era program, leaving young immigrants who benefit from its protections in legal limbo”: Michelle Hackman of The Wall Street Journal has this report. [read post]