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22 Oct 2021, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
On Wednesday, the United States Senate confirmed the nomination of Catherine Lhamon to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. [read post]
6 Dec 2022, 12:56 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Kitty Block, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States and CEO of Humane Society Legislative Fund, said: “An extraordinarily cruel era for big cats in the U.S. finally comes to an end with the passage of the Big Cat Public Safety Act. [read post]
8 Apr 2017, 12:08 pm by John Bellinger
  The United States will take additional action, as necessary and appropriate, to further its important national interests. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 12:24 pm by Tom Smith
Secondly, the will of a sole senator can gum up the United States Senate. [read post]
6 Nov 2015, 1:46 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On this day in history, Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States, and the first Republican to win the presidency. [read post]
11 Aug 2020, 5:52 pm by Gerard Magliocca
Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment provides: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer… [read post]
4 Feb 2018, 7:00 am by Michael S. Smith, II
Since 2014, Islamic State supporters who never set foot in the “caliphate” have perpetrated more than a dozen acts of terrorism in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. [read post]
9 Feb 2021, 8:22 am by Bob Bauer
He attacked the United States Supreme Court for having failed to come to his defense only because it feared criticism for being his “puppets. [read post]
15 Jan 2019, 4:54 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The New York Times: “On the 12th day of the federal government shutdown, the 45th president of the United States of America posted a meme on his Instagram account: an image of his half-glowering, half-smirking visage, hovering gigantically above the Southwestern desert, dwarfing the picture’s centerpiece — a rendering of his signature campaign promise — and, in a familiar font, some explanatory text: “The Wall Is Coming. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 8:00 am by Steven G. Pearl
 Ordinarily the President must obtain “the Advice and Consent of the Senate” before appointing an “Office[r] of the United States. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 1:01 pm by Sandy Levinson
Rather, as could be easily predicted by anyone familiar with my oeuvre, I continue to be amazed--and, of course, often enraged--by the complacent assumption that the United States is the kind of democracy that other countries should try to emulate. [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 8:57 am
National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley wrote to Senator Biden in February 2007 on the President's behalf to urge early approval of the Convention, emphasizing that it "protects and advances the national security, economic, and environmental interests of the United States. [read post]
5 Feb 2011, 5:41 pm
Canadians see the partisan behaviour in the United States Congress and Senate. [read post]
31 May 2012, 2:30 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
John Glenn Given Medal of Freedom President Barack Obama presents former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut and United States Senator John Glenn with a Medal of Freedom, Tuesday, May 29, 2012, during a ceremony at the White House in Washington. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 12:51 pm by Steve Lubet
 As such, they are unbefitting of one who would become a diplomatic representative of the United States and call into serious question his capacity to serve the United States honorably and successfully in this role. [read post]
30 May 2012, 9:33 am by Sally-Ann S. Underhill
Among its many provisions, the Senate bill would impose high civil penalties on U.S. parent companies for any activities of their foreign subsidiaries that, if they had been undertaken by a U.S. person or in the United States, would violate U.S. sanctions law. [read post]
2 Mar 2017, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On this date in history, President James Buchanan affixed his signature to a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the 36th Congress. [read post]