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9 Apr 2019, 3:30 am by Steve Vladeck
The current executive order on Homeland Security succession, promulgated by President Obama in December 2016, puts four other offices between Grady and McAleenan in the line of succession: the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator, the undersecretary for national protection and programs, the undersecretary for science and technology, and the undersecretary for intelligence and analysis. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 10:05 pm by Nassiri Law
Not only was the policy an abrupt about-face from that of the Obama administration, it came as a surprise to Trump’s own Pentagon, who were reportedly caught off-guard by a series of tweets the president made that then compelled the Department of Defense to initiate a plan for a ban and implement it. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 9:08 pm by Dan Flynn
This modernized approach to inspection was proposed and finalized for poultry under the Obama administration in 2014. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 4:59 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
By comparison, the average number of leak referrals during the Obama Administration (2009–2016) was 39 per year. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 12:42 pm by Kenneth C. Broodo
Many employers already adjusted in advance for what they thought would be more onerous Obama-era changes in 2016. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 12:26 pm by Larry S. Perlman
District Court for the District of Columbia recently ordered the EEOC to move forward with stalled Obama-era requirements that employers who are required to file annual EEO-1 reports provide certain pay data with those reports. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 6:00 am by Sandy Levinson
  Meese’s centrality to the story can be best understood if one compares the relatively insignificant role played by the American Constitution Society, ostensibly the liberal alternative to the Federalist Society, in national judicial politics during the Obama Administration. [read post]
7 Apr 2019, 10:48 am by Human Rights at Home Blog
The investigation into Alabama's male prison system began under the Obama administration with the bulk of the investigation continuing under the present administration.... [read post]
7 Apr 2019, 6:27 am
It's easy to imagine how wonderfully cool the same behavior would be if Obama, while President, had done the same thing with a video that made cute fun of Dick Cheney.And his elevation — from a Kansas City keyboard warrior to right-wing internet fame as the president’s unofficial meme maker — is a telling example of how the internet has fully blurred the lines between meme posting and business of politics.MSM wants a strong border between the professional media and… [read post]
6 Apr 2019, 10:30 am by Jen Patja Howell
  Kathy spoke with David and Nate about her service as President Obama's White House Counsel and how her experience at the Department of Justice instilled in her a deep respect for the rule of law, including limits on interactions between the White House and DOJ concerning particular investigations and other matters. [read post]
6 Apr 2019, 9:30 am by Stephen Bates
In 2011, the Obama Justice Department proposed giving the courts power to unseal grand jury records of “exceptional historical importance” after 30 years, with all records to be unsealed after 75 years. [read post]
6 Apr 2019, 7:21 am
Some good miscellany collected there, including my infamous episode with the subliminal pajamas in Hillary Clinton's attack on Obama. [read post]
6 Apr 2019, 6:00 am by Frank Pasquale
President Obama, here as in so much else, was playing the deliberative democratic game, trying to build political community around a centrist nominee who was relatively aged (63, the oldest Supreme Court nominee since Lewis F. [read post]
In 2015, President Obama issued an Executive Order placing some limitations on drone use. [read post]
5 Apr 2019, 5:07 am by SHG
But as Emily Yoffe notes, this same guy was the point man person pushing the paradigm shift giving rise to this dilemma: Among the cultural shifts orchestrated by the Obama administration was the assertion that evaluation of campus claims of sexual harassment and assault rest on the subjective feelings of the accuser. [read post]
5 Apr 2019, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
” [Quillette] “The Regressive Effects of Childcare Regulations” [Cato video with Ryan Bourne] “Court revives Obama-era rule that incentivizes racial quotas in special ed” [Liam Bissainthe] Tags: Child Protective Services, colleges and universities, disability & schools, guns, illegal drugs, schools [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 9:12 pm by Alana Bevan
Department of Agriculture (USDA) for rolling back an Obama-era rule that raised nutrition standards for school lunches. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 2:17 pm by James McQuade
The Obama-era 80/20 tip credit rule imposed a percentage-based standard under which an employee who spent 20% or more of the employee’s working time performing non-tipped duties was entitled to compensation at no less than the federal minimum wage for such non-tipped duties. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 6:41 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
What if Mitch McConnell gave Obama's Supreme Court choice, Merrick Garland, an up-and-down vote? [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 6:18 am by Emma DiNapoli
On March 13 and 14, a German court considered two challenges to the U.S. drone program in the Middle East and East Africa. [read post]