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1 Oct 2021, 12:05 pm
Biden Has More Power Over the Filibuster Than He’s Been Willing to Use By David Litt, former speechwriter for President Barack Obama In 1917, shortly after being sworn in for a second term, President Woodrow Wilson successfully waged a public campaign against the Senate filibuster rules, which were being used by senators to obstruct his request to arm U.S. merchant ships on the eve of U.S. entry into World War I. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 11:42 am
Attorney General Merrick Garland, who was himself nominated to the court by then-President Barack Obama in 2016 but was never given a hearing by the Republican-controlled Senate, attended Kavanaugh’s 2018 investiture but was not present on Friday. [read post]
30 Sep 2021, 9:05 am
The problem, as with Blinken and Sullivan, is that those who believed Biden was not fit to be president, including figures as diverse as Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden, were right. [read post]
30 Sep 2021, 5:32 am
After Barack Obama's disastrous negotiations with Republican hostage-takers in 2011, the only reason that we have not had a debt ceiling meltdown is that Obama stopped blinking, and Republicans calculated that they would take some or all of the blame for not increasing the debt ceiling, because they were in the majority in one or both houses of Congress. [read post]
29 Sep 2021, 11:35 am
To overcome the argument that DACA was illegal because it was created by President Barack Obama by a memorandum, the Biden Administration is basically recreating the program through the rulemaking process, including a 60-day comment period. [read post]
27 Sep 2021, 8:17 am
That would make him the heir to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, whom he replaced in 2017 after the Senate refused to vote on President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland.Gorsuch’s aspiration to intellectual leadership fairly bursts from his votes and opinions and seems to have formed early in his career. [read post]
25 Sep 2021, 12:18 pm
Democrats, on the other hand, have been all masks, all the time — except when it comes to their own glitzy events, like the Emmys or former President Barack Obama’s birthday party, where the “sophisticated” attending crowd was deemed mask-exempt. [read post]
25 Sep 2021, 4:22 am
"We were going to remake the world through radically democratized global conversations. [read post]
23 Sep 2021, 6:16 am
Dozens of columns, four law review articles, and one book later, here we go again.Once it became clear that the Republicans might refuse to increase the debt ceiling during Barack Obama’s presidency, the issue was no longer a bad joke, becoming instead an existential threat to the country (and the world). [read post]
23 Sep 2021, 5:01 am
Although Gingrich failed, congressional Republicans adopted his tactics during Barack Obama's presidency and did win significant cuts to domestic programs. [read post]
20 Sep 2021, 7:14 am
He also worked as a domestic policy adviser for President Barack Obama. [read post]
19 Sep 2021, 2:00 pm
Then-President Barack Obama vetoed the bill, and it only became law through a Congressional override of the President’s veto. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 12:15 pm
During IPWatchdog LIVE 2021 in Dallas, Texas, I asked a handful of willing attendees for their thoughts on the impact of the America Invents Act (AIA) in anticipation of today, the ten-year anniversary of the day President Barack Obama signed the AIA into law. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 12:15 pm
During IPWatchdog LIVE 2021 in Dallas, Texas, I asked a handful of willing attendees for their thoughts on the impact of the America Invents Act (AIA) in anticipation of today, the ten-year anniversary of the day President Barack Obama signed the AIA into law. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 7:58 am
Increasingly, however, children who are too young to have developed solid or informed opinions are being forced into premature ideological conformity with some teachers and administrators who seem intent on pushing their own particular worldviews in K–12 classrooms.These kinds of transgressions are not limited to the political Left.A Georgia teacher was yanked from class after telling the students that President Barack Obama was a closeted Muslim.In Wisconsin, a high school… [read post]
Labels Matter: How Professor Jack Balkin Snookered Justice Kagan and Others to Fuel Faux Originalism
15 Sep 2021, 4:30 am
"The Washington Examiner (2020): "When President Barack Obama nominated Judge Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court a decade ago, she declared in her nomination hearings, 'we are all originalists now.'"I could go on and on with articles in the media throughout the 2010-2021 period using Kagan's testimony to suggest, well many things, but often using it to support the idea that originalism is now well accepted by even liberal judges, etc., etc. [read post]
14 Sep 2021, 5:01 am
And if I gave short shrift to prisoner law in my genealogy of “humane” control and death from the air today, it is because of the harsh lesson that the very legalization of capture and detention from long ago proved the predicate for Barack Obama’s decision to kill enemies instead from the air by armed drone or standoff missile (or in a quick visit from special forces), with alleged compensation of humane targeting—the frightening phenomenon that book… [read post]
11 Sep 2021, 2:47 pm
Bush and (later) Barack Obama condemned anti-Muslim bigotry, and did what they could to forestall it. [read post]
11 Sep 2021, 11:40 am
It was actually the Barack Obama administration that clarified how much settlement had occurred on the big-picture legal issues by the end of Bush's second term. [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 5:01 am
Other recent individuals whose quotes have been introduced or supplemented in this edition include, among many others, Warren Buffett, Hillary Clinton, Pope Francis, Jonathan Franzen, Alan Greenspan, Steven Jobs, Cormac McCarthy, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Toni Morrison, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, David Foster Wallace, and Warren Zevon. [read post]
