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14 Apr 2016, 6:41 am
” In his column for The Atlantic, Garrett Epps criticizes the suggestion that, if the Senate does not act on Garland’s nomination, President Barack Obama should “simply proclaim Judge Merrick Garland ‘confirmed’ and send him over the One First St. [read post]
14 Apr 2016, 5:06 am
That’s giving the Supreme Court reason to tread carefully when it takes up President Barack Obama’s plan to keep as many as 5 million of them here. [read post]
13 Apr 2016, 2:13 pm
In a recent interview with Fox News, President Obama admitted that the handling of the 2011 military intervention in Libya was his “worst mistake”: President Barack Obama said the worst mistake of his presidency was a lack of planning for the aftermath of the 2011 toppling of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. [read post]
13 Apr 2016, 6:04 am
Commentary on next week’s oral arguments in the challenge to the Obama administration’s deferred-action policy for some immigrants comes from Simon Lazarus, who in New Republic argues that the challenge by Texas and other states “faces a host of heavyweight conservative authorities, of recent as well as long-established vintage, strongly supporting President Barack Obama’s position that deferring removal for parents of citizens and… [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 2:58 pm
If sentencing reform were not a cause being pushed by Barack Obama, Al Sharpton and Loretta Lynch, the "Republican aide's" remark would be blasted, and rightly so, for its dismissive, boys-will-be-boys attitude toward the murders of black children and their mother. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 3:59 am
In The Washington Post, Amber Phillips reports that, “[a]s the Court’s vacancy enters its second month, Republicans now appear to be saying” that the Court can function with just eight Justices; in a second article, Phillips explains why President Barack Obama may still be trying to get Garland confirmed, despite what appear to be long odds. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 12:15 am
Politico, The Ghost of Lois Lerner: Probably the biggest news to come out Sunday was President Barack Obama’s defense of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information while secretary of State on “Fox News Sunday” — and his assertion that Clinton won’t get any special treatment from a Justice... [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 6:27 am
Even if the measure were to make it in the Senate (which many speculate it will not) most believe President Barack Obama will never approve a tort reform measure. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 6:25 am
"Ex-American Bar Association chiefs push for vote on Garland": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "Fifteen former American Bar Association presidents are joining the push to urge Republicans to consider President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 6:13 am
Next week the Court will hear oral arguments in the challenge to the Obama administration’s deferred-action policy for some immigrants. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 5:29 am
President Barack Obama’s nominee for the U.S. [read post]
10 Apr 2016, 2:20 pm
So I'm sort of, what change does Hillary Clinton provide from Barack Obama? [read post]
10 Apr 2016, 1:54 pm
On "Fox News Sunday" this morning, Chris Wallace had a long interview with President Barack Obama. [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 12:48 pm
Islamic State fighters abducted at least 170 workers from a cement factory this week. [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 5:09 am
” In The New York Times, Michael Shear reports that yesterday President Barack Obama returned to the University of Chicago Law School, where he used to teach, “for the first time as president, using the backdrop of his onetime academic life to underscore his demand that Republicans reverse their opposition to holding hearings on his nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Merrick B. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 4:29 pm
Grassley of Iowa, would give federal judges leeway to sentence fewer defendants to long mandatory minimum prison terms; let some defendants face shorter mandatory prison sentences; and allow low-risk prisoners to qualify for earlier release.A rare confluence of fiscal, civil liberties and social justice concerns has brought together unusual allies in favor of the bill, including President Barack Obama and the conservative Koch brothers. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 9:15 am
An employee of the Virginia Department of Corrections posted the following on his personal Facebook page (a page that indicated that he worked at the department): Dear Barack Obama, You are cordially invited to a cookout tomorrow at my house. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 8:14 am
President Barack Obama. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 6:49 am
Just three weeks ago, Chief Judge Merrick Garland stood on the steps of the Rose Garden graciously and humbly accepting President Barack Obama’s nomination to the Supreme Court. [read post]
6 Apr 2016, 3:55 pm
Jennifer Bendery writes in Huffington Post: President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Donald Trump isn’t the only GOP presidential candidate whose extreme foreign policy proposals are causing trouble for the U.S. abroad. [read post]
