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28 Jun 2022, 5:58 am by Ambassador (ret.) Gordon Gray
” 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 by SHG
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 by Joseph Margulies
Consider, for instance, the attacks aired by the NRA in 2008 during Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign. [read post]
25 Jun 2022, 1:19 pm by Tom Smith
Wade probably wouldn’t have been overturned if Obama’s lunch with Ginsburg had convinced her to retire. [read post]
25 Jun 2022, 9:31 am by Tom Smith
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 by jonathanturley
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 by Eugene Volokh
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 by Neil H. Buchanan
  In today's Verdict column, for example, I quote from a talk that Barack Obama delivered in 2019, in which he smirked his way through a denunciation of young people who "tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb. [read post]
20 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
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, 9:17 am by Tom Smith
Over the past decade, the Pritzkers of Illinois, who helped put Barack Obama in the White House and include among their number former U.S. [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, 9:18 pm by Liz Dunshee
Bush, and Mary Schapiro, who was appointed by Barack Obama, along with top legal experts like Leo Strine Jr., the former chief justice of Delaware’s Supreme Court, and Lucian Bebchuk, a corporate law professor at Harvard. [read post]
16 Jun 2022, 7:56 am by Immigration Prof
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]
16 Jun 2022, 1:00 am by CAFE
Eric Holder is the third longest-serving Attorney General in American history, holding the role from 2009 to 2015 under President Barack Obama. [read post]
16 Jun 2022, 1:00 am by CAFE
Eric Holder is the third longest-serving Attorney General in American history, holding the role from 2009 to 2015 under President Barack Obama. [read post]
13 Jun 2022, 2:04 pm by Ilya Somin
That risk makes Trump's Big Lie more dangerous than a deception that "merely" facilitates the enactment of a specific dubious policy, such as the lies that Barack Obama used to help push through the Affordable Care Act. [read post]
12 Jun 2022, 9:08 pm by Cary Coglianese
Craig Green at Temple University’s law school has argued that conservatives’ antipathy toward Chevron seemed to emerge around the time President Barack Obama entered the White House. [read post]
Judge Brenda Sannes, appointed by former US President Barack Obama in 2014, ruled in a 43-page order that there was “no evidence” that James’ investigation into Trump’s business practices was in bad faith. [read post]
27 May 2022, 6:00 am by jonathanturley
  Both President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama have blamed the gun lobby for the violence in calling for new major gun controls. [read post]