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13 Aug 2019, 12:55 pm
The goal of the agreement, backed by the Obama administration, was to encourage Iran to dismantle its nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. [read post]
13 Aug 2019, 11:47 am
In its 84-year history, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB, Board or Agency) has promulgated a very small number of rules pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, relying, instead, on individualized adjudications to establish the Board’s legislative policies. [read post]
13 Aug 2019, 11:10 am
The ruling in Dana Corp. was previously overturned by the Obama-Board in Lamons Gasket. [read post]
13 Aug 2019, 9:44 am
That debate has also spilled into the battles about legitimacy of non-judicial grievance mechanisms encouraged by administrators during the time of the Presidency of Barack Obama and administered by U.S. universities under threat of loss of federal support (“Fairness for All Students Under Title IX,”; The Revolt of the Feminist Law Profs). [read post]
13 Aug 2019, 4:09 am
Briefly: At FiveThirtyEight, Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux looks at a recent study showing that “Americans’ views of the Supreme Court have grown somewhat less favorable over time, and in the past few months, an unusually large partisan gap has opened up”; she suggests that “an uptick in partisan rancor could prompt the justices to tread carefully in a year when [they] will already be addressing hot-button issues like President Trump’s effort to end Obama-era… [read post]
13 Aug 2019, 3:00 am
Louis County Executive Gets Nearly 4 Years in Prison” by James Saltzer for AP News Legislative Issues Florida: “Florida’s ‘Broken’ Legislature: ‘Session too quick, term limits too short and lawmakers paid too little’” by Steven Lemongello for Orlando Sentinel Lobbying National: “Lobbyists Race to Cash in on Cannabis Boom” by Alex Gangitano for The Hill National: “Trial of Former Obama White House Counsel Gregory Craig… [read post]
12 Aug 2019, 5:46 pm
But that’s not what investigators, including those from the Obama administration, concluded" (Vox).Warren and Harris reiterated the protesters’ narrative in two separate tweets on the five-year anniversary of the shooting, using the moment to call for action against systemic racism and police violence....The tweets expose the fine line that Warren, Harris, and others calling attention to police brutality have to walk. [read post]
12 Aug 2019, 5:14 pm
The Obama Administration dragged its feet and failed to vigorously oppose attacks on its regulations because AG Holder et al. really don't like the death penalty. [read post]
12 Aug 2019, 2:52 pm
Under the Obama administration, the Board passed the “quickie” or “ambush” election rule, which significantly shortens the time between the date an election petition is filed with the NLRB and the date the election is held, requires preelection hearings to be held very shortly after the filing of a representation petition, and requires employers to provide union representatives with far more information on potential voters than in the past. [read post]
12 Aug 2019, 8:33 am
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 2:00 p.m.: The Woodrow WIlson International Center for Scholars will host an event titled, “Decoding the Disinformation Problem. [read post]
12 Aug 2019, 3:39 am
But Gavin’s victory in the lower court at that time had been based largely on an Obama Administration policy in favor of applying Title IX to transgender cases. [read post]
11 Aug 2019, 7:00 am
The Magnitsky Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2012 in response to the case of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who died in Russian state custody in 2009. [read post]
10 Aug 2019, 6:43 am
Racist Rhetoric Aimed at Immigrant Community Trump, the original author of “fake news” (the Obama “birther conspiracy” as an example) has never been a fan of facts. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 2:31 pm
Stunning range of potentially relevant legal doctrines, from ROP to fraud.Kim Kardashian and Barack Obama have been convincingly replicated; could be used to deter voting among African-Americans by telling them voting hours have changed, etc. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 2:18 pm
USA Today Supreme Court reporter Richard Wolf has an interesting article summarizing her time on the Court so far: Sotomayor was President Barack Obama's choice to fill the first Supreme Court seat that became vacant on his watch, and she has not disappointed. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 11:31 am
When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, I volunteered—not only as one of his foreign policy wonks, but also as his chief surrogate to the American Muslim community. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 9:41 am
See also the following statement tweeted by President Obama.] [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 3:00 am
Judge Dismisses 1 of 2 Charges Against Greg Craig Politico – Josh Gerstein and Theodoric Meyer | Published: 8/6/2019 Greg Craig, a who served as the first White House counsel in the Obama administration, scored a pretrial win as a judge threw out one of two charges in a false-statement case against him stemming from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 2:00 am
Circuit Court of Appeals—which covers Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas—has handed the state of Texas a win in its fight against Obama-era guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) related to the use of criminal record checks in hiring. [read post]
8 Aug 2019, 8:52 pm
After adjustment for inflation, these levels are still considerably below those from Fiscal Year 2010, the last year before congressional Republicans succeeded in getting President Obama to accept austerity to address deficits driven by the Great Recession. [read post]
