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13 Jul 2022, 5:00 am
Under the reconciliation process, the Senate may pass a law that has a clear budgetary effect with only 50 votes; the filibuster rule requiring 60 votes would not apply.What’s more, reconciliation was precisely how President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party congressional leadership enacted the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010. [read post]
12 Jul 2022, 4:39 pm
This is lower than the first-year confirmation rate for Presidents Donald Trump (57%), Barack Obama (69%) and George W. [read post]
12 Jul 2022, 11:44 am
Why would even an apolitical Attorney General spend political capital pursuing a former President for anything along these lines? [read post]
8 Jul 2022, 6:01 am
America’s relative disengagement from international obligations began under former president Barack Obama. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 12:22 pm
Here's a paragraph of wind-up from the story, and then the quote from Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone II: Wednesday's arguments before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals took place just over a decade after President Barack Obama created the DACA program through executive action. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 5:32 am
{Rebecca Carroll, When Larry Wilmore said the N-Word to President Obama, I felt Black Pride, GUARDIAN, May 2, 2016 (Perhaps the most famous instance of context mattering as to the term used in this case occurred in the spring of 2016 at the White House Correspondents Dinner when, at the end of his remarks, comedian Larry Wilmore addressed then President of the United States Barack Obama as "my nigga. [read post]
3 Jul 2022, 3:06 pm
" I discussed the relationship of case by case discretion and general rules in more detail in this 2016 article focusing on litigation over one of Barack Obama's immigration initiatives. [read post]
1 Jul 2022, 10:27 am
There are people who said the same thing about Barack Obama, after all, spending years claiming that he was abusing the presidency in fantastic ways (where fantastic in this context means "based on outlandish fantasies"). [read post]
29 Jun 2022, 7:01 am
Cyberspace is a strategic competitive environment where continuous activity short of use of force has cumulatively threatened international peace and stability. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 6:00 pm
In an unsigned opinion, the panel (which consisted of judges appointed by former Presidents Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump) concluded that although the challengers “have much to prove when the merits are ultimately decided,” Ardoin had not made the “strong showing” needed to prevail at this preliminary stage. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 5:58 am
” Martin cited President Barack Obama’s March 28, 2011, speech on Libya: “The democratic impulses that are dawning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship, as repressive leaders concluded that violence is the best strategy to cling to power. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 3:28 am
In 2016, Mitch McConnell, then the Senate majority leader, blocked a vote on President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, defending his action on the grounds that the nomination came just eight months before that year’s presidential election. [read post]
26 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm
Consider, for instance, the attacks aired by the NRA in 2008 during Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign. [read post]
25 Jun 2022, 9:31 am
The ignition points for those decisions can be traced to two fateful historical moments involving two men who don’t always see eye to eye: Senate Leader Mitch McConnell’s refusal to confirm President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016 and Trump’s insistence that his third nominee, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, be confirmed before the 2020 election. [read post]
24 Jun 2022, 3:32 am
Holder would later described himself as President Barack Obama’s “wingman” and was later held in contempt by Congress. [read post]
21 Jun 2022, 4:02 pm
Samantha Markle seeks disqualification because President Barack Obama appointed the undersigned to serve as a federal judge in 2009. [read post]
21 Jun 2022, 9:00 am
" Wow, what an important thing for the former president to say! [read post]
20 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm
In 2019, no less than Barack Obama—who, despite his lionized status among liberals, was very much a practitioner of the politics of capitulation and who perfected the Democrats’ continued defensive crouch on issue after issue—announced that he was against “woke” shaming. [read post]
18 Jun 2022, 5:23 am
Then from 2009 to 2016, each year he was in office, President Barack Obama declared June LGBT Pride Month. [read post]
16 Jun 2022, 7:56 am
As we posted on the blog yesterday, June 15, 2022 is the 10th year anniversary of the announcement of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy by President Barack Obama. [read post]
