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20 Nov 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
There is, after all, plenty of room for genuine conservative views in the Democratic Party, notwithstanding media tropes that continue to paint Barack Obama’s center-right agenda as “liberal. [read post]
20 Nov 2013, 8:11 pm by Jon Gelman
Cutler, who was profiled by Roger Lowenstein in the New York Times Magazine in 2005, subsequently worked for President Barack Obama on health care issues, and talked to us recently for a story about cost savings. [read post]
20 Nov 2013, 9:12 am by Tom Smith
The Barack Obama administration is sounding a bit more upbeat today on the state of the health insurance exchanges. [read post]
20 Nov 2013, 8:41 am by Sheldon Toplitt
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)The inaugural Periodic Review Board ("PRB") hearing of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mahmud al Mujahid, 33, scheduled for today excludes the press and will be conducted beyond closed doors, the Jurist.org Web site reports.President Barack Obama established the PRB via an executive order in 2011 whose aim is to review the status of certain detainees at Guantanamo Bay to gauge whether continued incarceration is warranted in the interest of national security. [read post]
20 Nov 2013, 4:00 am by Lyonette Louis-Jacques
President Barack Obama brews his own beer. [read post]
19 Nov 2013, 12:33 pm by Ilya Somin
This is equivalent to saying that Barack Obama is likely to appoint committed liberal law professors to the Supreme Court, such as those who argue that the Constitution requires judges to enforce a broad array of welfare rights. [read post]
19 Nov 2013, 10:03 am by Tom Smith
It showed Barack Obama's approval rating at 39 percent, with his disapproval rating at 54 percent -- sharply down from 45 percent approval and 49 percent disapproval on Oct. 1, the day the government shutdown began and healthcare.gov went into (limited) operation. [read post]
18 Nov 2013, 3:07 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I wanted to pass along another brief the UCLA First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic submitted last week. [read post]
18 Nov 2013, 9:00 am
So I wonder how Barack Obama feels about all this 50th anniversary business. [read post]
17 Nov 2013, 11:39 am by Benjamin Minegar
In 2011 US President Barack Obama [official website] issued an executive order [text; fact sheet] establishing the PRB process, which empowers authorities to review whether continued detention of certain detainees held at... [read post]
17 Nov 2013, 5:34 am by Jon Gelman
Today's post was shared by Kaiser Health News and comes from www.kaiserhealthnews.org President Barack Obama’s announcement Thursday that insurers can extend cancelled policies that don’t comply with the health law has prompted conflicting reactions from California insurance regulators and the companies they oversee.State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said he will urge companies to let more than a million consumers keep their plans for an additional year,… [read post]
16 Nov 2013, 11:02 pm by Dan Flynn
Democratic Presidents Clinton and Barack Obama appointed two of the four, and Republican George W. [read post]
16 Nov 2013, 3:33 pm
Now it's 2012, and Hillary goes for it again, only to be defeated in the primaries by another "first," the possible first black President, this fascinating upstart with the funny name Barack Hussein Obama. [read post]
16 Nov 2013, 7:34 am by Julie Deisher
[JURIST] President Barack Obama [official website] issued a memorandum [text, PDF] on Friday giving US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) [official website] the authority to "parole in place" the children, spouses and parents of active duty members of the armed forces, the selected reserve of the ready reserve and former members thereof. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 5:06 am by Jon Gelman
Today's post was shared by Linda Reinstein and comes from www.politico.com President Barack Obama’s administration came out against a key piece of asbestos legislation Tuesday just days after headlining a fundraiser at the homes of two of the top asbestos litigators in the country.In a swing through Texas last week, two of the country’s top asbestos attorneys, Russell Budd and Peter Kraus, hosted fundraisers that brought in an expected $1 million-plus for the Democratic… [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 4:47 am by Jon Gelman
Today's post was shared by Kaiser Health News and comes from www.kaiserhealthnews.org President Obama announced Thursday that insurers will be permitted to extend canceled insurance policies into 2014, due to the difficulties consumers are having enrolling in new insurance coverage through the new online marketplaces.More coverage: Obama Offers Fix For Insurance Plan CancellationsA transcript follows.PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: ... [read post]
14 Nov 2013, 12:48 pm
Twenty-four hours later, we have our "answer:""President Barack Obama said Thursday that insurers will be able to continue health-insurance coverage next year for current policyholders"Uh-hunh. [read post]
14 Nov 2013, 3:24 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
It’s a pleasure to join them, President [Barack] Obama, my fellow Cabinet members, and leaders throughout the Administration in welcoming such a distinguished group to Washington. [read post]
12 Nov 2013, 4:20 pm by LindaMBeale
In Part I, I outlined some of the many ways in which the U.S. provides favorable treatment to religious institutions and/or their representatives, including income exclusions from the federal income tax for ministers that are unavailable to any other occupation. [read post]