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18 Feb 2015, 6:00 am
News sources reported late yesterday that, although no final decision has been made, Obama administration sources that the Department of Justice is unlikely to seek an emergency stay to block the district court's preliminary injunction of the expanded deferred action... [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 11:01 am
Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday rejected a New Mexico lawyer's long-shot bid to force a Senate confirmation vote on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick, Merrick Garland, after Republican senators refused to act on his nomination. [read post]
19 Dec 2009, 5:55 pm
In a statement issued by Elaine Kaplan (pictured) OPM counsel and "open lesbian," the OPM and the Obama Administration refuse to comply with Ninth Circuit Judge Kozinski's order granting spousal benefits to lesbian federal employee's same-sex partner, previously discussed here.... [read post]
23 Nov 2014, 12:49 pm
Saturday Night Live ratcheted up the laughs against President Obama for his unprecedented amnesty orders using the throwback song from Schoolhouse Rock, “I’m Just A Bill. [read post]
7 Jun 2018, 8:53 am
., Department of Political Science, School of Public Policy) and Jennifer Segal Diascro (University of California Washington Program (UCDC)) have published an article entitled "A Retrospective on Obama's Judges: Diversity, Intersectionality, and Symbolic Representation" in... [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 5:47 pm
The historic plan announced by President Obama on Wednesday to normalize relations with Cuba was met with heavy bipartisan resistance on Capitol Hill, raising questions of whether Congress will even consider easing a more than 50-year trade embargo against the communist state -- let alone end it. [read post]
16 Apr 2016, 11:45 am
The impassioned election-year debate over President Obama’s immigration executive actions lands Monday before a short-handed Supreme Court, where justices will consider a fundamental question: how much power does the president truly have? [read post]
5 Jul 2010, 8:19 am
Following the first major speech by President Obama on immigrants and immigration, leaders of the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC), the largest network of immigrant-led organizations in the country, had the following responses: Angela Sanbrano, NALACC’s... [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 12:24 pm
Several leading scholars of administrative and environmental law have raised questions about Sunstein's views on cost-benefit analysis in connection with his nomination to be "Regulatory Czar" for Obama: their report is here. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 7:05 pm
Iran’s arrest of American soldiers was “a show of dominance” and the Obama Administration is now thanking them “for their humiliation,” Charles Krauthammer said tonight. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 4:54 am
We are in the second year of the Obama admininstration. [read post]
Obama administration vigorously defends DOMA in court: it is anti-gay or just politically tone-deaf?
15 Jun 2009, 7:05 am
Art Leonard at New York Law School, one of the fairest and most astute observers of gay legal developments, has generally counseled patience to those who are growing restless at the Obama administration's missteps and lack of action on gay... [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 4:59 am
United States in their efforts to stop President Obama's executive action programs. [read post]
30 Oct 2015, 12:54 pm
“They actually think Obama hates Israel. [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 8:24 am
House and Senate lawmakers are running up against an end-of-the-week August recess without a compromise on legislation addressing the border crisis -- potentially playing into the hands of President Obama as he weighs sweeping unilateral action on immigration. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 8:40 pm
Guttmacher Institute news release: The President's Budget: Prevention Advances, but Abortion Rights Stall Out: On February 1, President Obama sent his proposed budget for the fiscal year starting October 1, 2010 to Congress. [read post]
21 Jul 2015, 10:33 am
President Obama has ordered that flags be lowered to half-staff at the White House and federal buildings across the country to honor the victims of last week's shooting rampage in Chattanooga, Tenn., after facing pressure from lawmakers and others. [read post]
4 Dec 2015, 9:56 am
A radical foreign policy adviser fired by President Obama years ago for meeting with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is back as the administration’s new czar in charge of countering the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 1:31 pm
The Obama administration, which until recently has been known primarily on immigration for its enforcement-oriented policies, has gotten many kudos for the announcement a few weeks ago that it will prioritize its removals and not necessarily seek to deport all... [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 9:08 pm
As everyone has heard by now, President Obama has pledged to end Don't Ask Don't Tell with respect top the military. [read post]
