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10 Oct 2014, 7:32 am by Benjamin Wittes
Lee and Jess Bravin, over at the Wall Street Journal, are reporting this morning that: The White House is drafting options that would allow President Barack Obama to close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by overriding a congressional ban on bringing detainees to the U.S., senior administration officials said. [read post]
10 Oct 2014, 7:26 am by Jon Brodkin
President Barack Obama yesterday said he is still “unequivocally committed to net neutrality” and that he wants the Federal Communications Commission to issue rules that prevent Internet service providers from creating paid fast lanes. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 6:56 pm
” In a letter to President Obama and Congressional leaders, the Chairs cited the unique bipartisan structure of the CECC, with Commissioners from Congress and the Administration, and identified 10 areas for more focused legislative and executive action, including, among other things, worker rights and prison labor, commercial rule of law, food safety, press and Internet freedom, and efforts to reform China’s coercive population planning policies The letter from Senator Brown and… [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 5:51 am
Laurence Tribe (Harvard): Justice Barack Obama? [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 5:07 am by Jon Gelman
 “They’re getting a lot more revenue, often for the same person,” said consultant Robert Laszewski, a former insurance executive.Last year, similar cancellation letters sent to more than 2 million customers created a political firestorm for President Barack Obama, who had repeatedly... [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 12:38 am by Paul Caron
Power Line: Is Another Obama Administration Scandal About to Explode: While strong cases can be made for both Benghazi and Fast and Furious, most voters consider Barack Obama’s misuse of the IRS to be his administration’s worst scandal so far. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 3:27 pm by Tom Smith
., President Barack Obama said the government was considering ordering more careful screening of airline passengers arriving from the region. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 5:36 am by Amy Howe
Briefly: At Coverage Opinions, Randy Maniloff interviews Laurence Tribe about (among other things) future vacancies on the Court and President Barack Obama as a Supreme Court Justice. [read post]
4 Oct 2014, 7:20 am
”Judge Cote was not appointed by Barack Obama, who, the day before Rosa's sentencing, appeared at the annual gala of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and said: "Fixing our broken immigration system is one more big thing we have to do and one more thing we will do. [read post]
4 Oct 2014, 5:41 am by Immigration Prof
Allen West (R-Fla.) is saying that President Barack Obama has extended open arms to undocumented immigrants to join the U.S. military. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 12:03 pm by Cody Poplin
Even if Afghan security forces are increasingly up for the job, the Economist writes that if Barack Obama does not want to see “history repeat itself, he needs to change his mind about the nature and the duration of the military support America and the West gives Afghanistan. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 7:40 am
The article reads: A bill headed to President Barack Obama's desk could be a "major victory" for condominium developers and save them millions of dollars in rescinded deposits from clients with buyer's remorse. [read post]
2 Oct 2014, 9:43 am by Tammy Binford
The rule implements Executive Order 13568, which was announced by President Barack Obama in February. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 6:28 pm by Benjamin Wittes
President Barack Obama was even more explicit during a prime-time speech to the nation on September 10, warning that “thousands of foreigners—including Europeans and some Americans” have joined ISIS militants and that “trained and battle-hardened, these fighters could try to return to their home countries and carry out deadly attacks. [read post]
30 Sep 2014, 12:08 pm by Benjamin Bissell
In Foreign Policy, Colum Lynch and Elias Groll write that Obama’s U.N. foreign fighters resolution could be a gift to the world’s most repressive police states, providing them powerful new tools to crack down on groups they label as terrorists. [read post]
30 Sep 2014, 9:03 am by Matthew Waxman
One interesting aspect of this story is that it places much blame for collapse of Guantanamo closure efforts on the Pentagon: “The transfer of prisoners out of Guantanamo Bay has ground to a halt amid a slow Pentagon approval process, causing deep frustration within the administration and raising doubts that President Barack Obama will be able to fulfill his campaign promise to close the offshore prison for terrorism suspects. [read post]
29 Sep 2014, 11:59 am by Benjamin Wittes
-led airstrikes against the Islamic State gave President Barack Obama a moment of opportunity to launch a one-two punch, hitting both the high-profile militant group that has overtaken vast swaths of Iraq and Syria and the shadowy Khorasan Group. [read post]