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20 Mar 2013, 5:00 am by Heidi Henson
President Barack Obama announced March 18 his nomination of Thomas Perez as the next Department of Labor Secretary. [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 6:21 pm by Larry Catá Backer
A cornerstone of Obama administration policy is to use agreements like TPP as a component of an integrated approach to development policy.[21] Its critics understand the breadth of TPP correctly as a “super-sized” next generation trade deal that is meant to institutionalize current developments in free movement of goods, services and capital, and to some extent, labor.[22] Not merely limited to the usual stuff of trade deals, this one is meant to provide a basis for pushing… [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 3:19 pm by Alan J. Borsuk
Approval for President Barack Obama was 48% and disapproval was 45%. [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 2:57 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Politico: When President Barack Obama arrives in Israel on Wednesday, it'll be tough for him to miss the campaign pressing him to release an American-born man convicted of spying for Israel: Jonathan... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 5:51 am
"The administration maintains that position despite the Supreme Court’s infamous decision last year that concluded that attaching the GPS devices amounted to search protected by the Constitution." [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 9:08 am by Tom Smith
"The Bible" has been an incredibly successful miniseries for the History channel, so it's no wonder viewers took to the internet after noticing that the actor cast in the role of Satan looks quite a bit like President Barack Obama. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 6:30 am by Benjamin Wittes
And most informed observers would agree, I think, that as a result of our government’s counterterrorism efforts, spanning both the Bush and Obama Administrations, and which have included targeted lethal force against known individuals, the U.S. homeland is safer today from a terrorist attack launched by al Qaeda from overseas. [read post]
16 Mar 2013, 6:37 pm by Howard Friedman
Pchyolki says that the suit was motivated by President Barack Obama's support for legalizing same-sex marriage. [read post]
15 Mar 2013, 11:51 am
See this interesting article, which begins:In his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Barack Obama called for increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour. [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 7:02 am
Even before renting the first time, the building owners took into account that:Medical marijuana was legal under state law;The dispensaries had business permits from the city;A memo in 2009 issued by Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, speaking on behalf of the newly-inaugurated Barack Obama, directed Justice Department prosecutors to refrain from targeting medical marijuana patients. [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 11:29 am by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – The National Labor Relations Board is appealing a ruling regarding President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the U.S. [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 10:07 am by Ritika Singh
And, speaking of drones, America’s Finest News Source has this piece that is likely Rand Paul’s worst nightmare: it’s today’s Moment of Zen: ‘You’re My Best Friend,’ Says Obama To Drone That Appears Outside Bedroom Window Every Night   WASHINGTON—White House sources confirmed that after hearing a gentle tap on his window Thursday evening, President Barack Obama stepped out onto the Truman balcony to meet with the… [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 10:18 pm by Shouvik Kumar Guha
National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon alleged China of waging a campaign of cyber espionage against U.S. companies, including widespread theft of IP and trade secrets that is threatening to derail President Barack Obama’s second-term effort to improve US-China relationships.Image from hereIn an UK Court, Apple has won a lawsuit filed by Samsung as part of the two companies’ global patent battle over technology used on mobile devices, when the latter’s patents… [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 4:42 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
Ana Avendaño, a top immigration policy aide at AFL-CIO, said that unions believe they have an advantage in negotiations because of the reelection of President Barack Obama, whose immigration plan -- which is being withheld while members of Congress craft their own bill -- aligns closely with labor goals. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 1:51 pm
Mitt Romney would have cruised to the White House had he managed to split the youth vote with Barack Obama, according to an analysis released Wednesday. [read post]
11 Mar 2013, 6:03 am by Ruby Powers
By Carrie Dann, Political Reporter, NBC News Flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, the original author of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, President Barack Obama signed a reauthorization of the legislation Thursday. [read post]
10 Mar 2013, 6:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
See related comments on the DNA database case from the CATO Institute's Jim Harper.Court limits suspicionless border searches of electronic gadgetsThe federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that "U.S. border agents do not have carte blanche authority to search the cellphones, tablets and laptops of travelers entering the country — a 'watershed' decision in the court’s own terms and one at odds with the policies of the President Barack Obama… [read post]
9 Mar 2013, 7:49 pm by Mary L. Dudziak
  Barack Obama obviously isn’t Richard Nixon, but his reluctance to disclose the legal basis for targeted killings attempts to do something that Nixon also attempted: to cloak decisions about war in government secrecy, undermining political checks on the use of military force.Nixon’s White Paper was written by the State Department’s deputy legal advisor after questions were raised about the legal authority for bombing Cambodia. [read post]