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5 Nov 2014, 1:17 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Bloomberg reports: President Barack Obama said he’ll ask the lame-duck Congress to give him authorization to use military force against Islamic State militants, a shift in the administration’s approach to an offensive already under way in Iraq and Syria. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 9:40 am by Tom Smith
President Barack Obama cuts a lonely figure. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 8:04 am by Tammy Binford
President Barack Obama and various groups have called for a federal minimum wage of $10.10 per hour, but those efforts have stalled. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 6:11 am
Michelle Obama (twice), Barack Obama, and even that other Clinton, Bill. [read post]
President Barack Obama has stated that “the private sector and the government can, and should, work together to meet this shared challenge,” while FBI Director Robert S. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 5:28 am by Wells Bennett
 His release was the first since President Barack Obama’s controversial May 31 transfer of five Afghan Taliban prisoners to the custody of Qatar in exchange for U.S. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
After all, in 2008, candidate Barack Obama promised to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, but today, six years after his election as President, the prison remains open for business thanks to congressional pushback. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 11:36 am by Benjamin Bissell
While the economy always dominates elections, this year’s contest is also being described as a referendum on President Obama’s administration. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 11:00 am
  The string was finally broken in 2008, when Barack Obama beat out Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries and secured the nomination of his party. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 10:28 am by Lyle Denniston
Bush and Barack Obama — have refused to enforce that law, regarding it as a constitutional affront to presidential diplomatic power and as a serious threat to the U.S. government’s credibility as a neutral broker between the hostile factions in the Mideast conflict between Israel and Palestine. [read post]
2 Nov 2014, 6:59 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
From Reuters: A 42-year-old Maryland man accused of threatening to kill President Barack Obama and first lady Michele Obama in an explicit email strewn with racist remarks was in custody on Sunday, the United States Secret Service said. [read post]
2 Nov 2014, 7:16 am by Tom Smith
On Tuesday, it is all but inevitable that Greg Abbot’s campaign and Texas voters are going to beat Wendy Davis like a circus monkey, and it will be her second significant defeat in the campaign: She ran triumphantly unopposed in the New York Times primary, with Robert Draper all but kissing the hem of her garment, but she took a beating in the Rio Grande primary, with her penniless nobody opponent outperforming her in critical border counties that had gone heavily for Barack… [read post]
2 Nov 2014, 5:58 am
How did Barack Obama pull voters away from Hillary Clinton in 2008? [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 9:02 pm by Lyle Denniston
Bush and Barack Obama — have argued in response that the law encroaches deeply on presidential authority. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 3:37 pm
I know back in 2011, many Wisconsinites felt Scott Walker did too much, too harshly when he got elected.I'll resist ranting about how terribly Barack Obama disappointed those who, back in 2008, believed he was offering a transcendent new and beautiful politics that would bring us peace and good... brotherhood.... [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 6:42 am by Jim Sedor
The FEC deadlocked on whether to investigate Checks and Balances for Economic Growth, a group that ran a pair of online advertisements attacking President Barack Obama and U.S. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 5:31 am by Immigration Prof
The Three Senators As has been widely reported, three Republican senators (John McCain (Arizona), Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) and Marco Rubio (Florida) who have supported comprehensive immigration reform are now urging President Barack Obama to hold off on executive action... [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 7:54 am by Matthew R. Arnold, Esq.
Political leaders from President Barack Obama to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have expressed support for examining the ban and, potentially, lifting it. [read post]