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6 Jul 2023, 1:26 pm
Racial profiling is especially prevalent in immigration enforcement, where it is even backed by official government policy—including under liberal Democratic presidents, such as Biden and Barack Obama. [read post]
3 Jul 2023, 6:30 am
As Barack Obama reminded us, at a happier moment, “elections have consequences,” with the implication that winners ought to be allowed to put their policy preferences into law and that losers should in effect be “good sports,” hoping in the next election to displace those they consider rascals, in the hope (and with the justified expectation) that if they in fact win, they will enjoy the prerogatives of winners. [read post]
3 Jul 2023, 6:05 am
IMAGE: US President Joe Biden and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi wait for a meeting with senior officials and CEOs of American and Indian companies in the East Room in the White House in Washington, DC, on June 23, 2023. [read post]
2 Jun 2023, 5:16 am
While President Bush’s National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (2003) framed the issue similarly to PDD 63, President Barack Obama’s Cybersecurity Review (2009) places blame for poor security on the “broad reach of a loose and lightly regulated digital infrastructure. [read post]
31 May 2023, 9:47 am
America changed which political party controlled the White House, Wall Street crashed the economy, the Bush administration shoveled a record amount of taxpayer dollars to bail out the mega-banks, and the first of what would be millions of individuals lost their savings, jobs, and houses. [read post]
22 May 2023, 9:01 pm
Yesterday, Professor Michael Dorf and I wrote here on Verdict that President Biden’s fundamental tendency toward caution and centrism were leading the White House astray, causing the President to offer weak excuses for refusing to recognize that the debt ceiling law is unconstitutional. [read post]
22 May 2023, 4:30 am
It is reminiscent of when Democrats applauded wildly when President Barack Obama told them that he was going to circumvent Congress entirely after it refused to approve his immigration and environmental legislation. [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:00 pm
Things are becoming ever more fraught, and it is neither too early nor too late to reassess the pros and cons of the present strategy.But even if the White House decides to stick this out, the President will still be able to do the right thing by paying the country’s bills in full and on time, which will require him finally to say without qualifications that the debt ceiling law must give way to the Constitution. [read post]
18 May 2023, 6:30 am
This is a term often applied to executives; think only of the term “imperial presidency,” which obviously can apply as well to one’s unfavorite state governors. [read post]
16 May 2023, 9:01 pm
Even that, however, would not help Republicans.Let us imagine that the White House follows the Buchanan-Dorf plan and tells the Treasury to keep calm and carry on. [read post]
16 May 2023, 12:01 am
He was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Federal Commission on Long-Term Care, advising Congress on how long-term care can be better provided and financed for the nation’s older adults and people with disabilities, now and in the future. [read post]
1 May 2023, 5:18 am
” CBS News reports President Joe Biden meets with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines at the White House on Monday. [read post]
15 Mar 2023, 9:00 pm
(This last example reminds me of a manufactured controversy coming out of my original home state of Ohio in 2008, when a conservative troll complained that Barack Obama had supposedly created “O” flags that looked too much like the US flag. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 6:59 am
“I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone,” Barack Obama famously put it. [read post]
19 Feb 2023, 5:48 am
Even President Barack Obama’s ethics head has raised objections. [read post]
30 Jan 2023, 5:49 am
This pivot from the counterterrorism wars has in many respects been conducted with little fanfare from the White House. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 10:21 am
Fed and Treasury officials held an emergency meeting shortly before the first debt ceiling drop-dead date (the one in which Barack Obama caved and rewarded the hostage-takers) and said that they "had jointly developed and codified the procedures" to pay principal and interest. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 6:56 am
For the 30th anniversary of Bush 41's departure from the White House, David Priess chatted with Becker about how she first came to work with First Lady Barbara Bush, how that led to her work as chief of staff for Bush after he'd left office, the diverse activities of a lengthy post-presidency, former presidents' interactions with intelligence and classified material, Bush 41's choice to refrain from frequent political statements, his… [read post]
5 Dec 2022, 9:40 am
This was much of my focus in the White House. [read post]
21 Nov 2022, 5:16 am
Bush and Barack Obama were never impeached, despite facing opposition majorities in the House, and despite accusations of high crimes and misdemeanors made against them by members of those majorities. [read post]
