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23 Sep 2021, 6:16 am by Neil H. Buchanan
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]
26 Aug 2021, 5:50 pm by Tom Smith
Eight years ago, Collins and Fauci helped put in place high-level reviews and other safeguards in response to concerns raised by Relman and aides to President Barack Obama, who were alarmed by what they saw as insufficient scrutiny of the research with ferrets. [read post]
23 Aug 2021, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
President Barack Obama appointed McHugh, and President Bill Clinton named Murphy. [read post]
19 Aug 2021, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On August 12, 2009, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. [read post]
12 Aug 2021, 6:47 pm by binder'sblog
” Senator Barack Obama: ”I’ve now been in 57 states. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
President Barack Obama won those confrontations by playing a game of brinksmanship with the Republicans, and we were fortunate that calmer heads prevailed each time, albeit at the very last minute. [read post]
8 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Bush’s content-free “compassionate conservatism,” followed by militaristic fantasies and lies that led the country into disastrous long-term foreign quagmires.After losing the presidency to Barack Obama in 2008, Republicans were temporarily on their heels, until they realized that they could stoke hatred among their base by intensifying dog-whistle racist attacks on Obama and, by extension, Democratic policies. [read post]
2 Jun 2021, 7:06 am by Eric Goldman
Again, this definition is nearly identical with the one in California’s post-mortem statute [Civil Code § 3344.1(h)], except for the addition of the two clauses in italics above. [read post]
28 Apr 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The answer was that, as a constitutional matter, the president must treat the debt ceiling as nonbinding and borrow the amount of money necessary—but no more than that amount—so that he can faithfully execute the taxing and spending laws.During the years when the Republicans were using the debt ceiling to try to extort concessions from the Obama administration (2011-16), most people simply assumed that a president would have no choice but to refuse to spend… [read post]
9 Apr 2021, 10:27 am by Amy Howe
The co-chairs of the commission, which will complete its report within 180 days of its first public meeting, are Bob Bauer, an NYU law professor who served as White House counsel to President Barack Obama, and Cristina Rodríguez, a Yale Law School professor who served as a deputy assistant attorney general during the Obama administration. [read post]
29 Mar 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
” He then provided a six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon conspiracy theory connecting the 1960’s “weathermen” to Barack Obama. [read post]
29 Jan 2021, 5:35 am by Kevin
If you’ve forgotten who Orly Taitz is, she is that intrepid Moldovan-American lawyer-dentist who was involved in at least dozens of lawsuits insisting Barack Obama could not be president because he was not a “natural born citizen. [read post]
28 Jan 2021, 8:18 pm by Josh Blackman
Nine of the 13 retiring judges were appointed by Democrats — eight by Clinton and one by President Barack Obama. [read post]
1 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
But how can that be, given that “everyone’s 401(k)’s got bigger” (as Trump has said) and the unemployment rate continued its decline that had begun at the beginning of Barack Obama’s presidency? [read post]
1 Nov 2020, 8:58 am
 We too prefer the first-class temperament and demeanor of a Winston Churchill, a Dwight Eisenhower, a Franklin Roosevelt, a Ronald Reagan, or a Barack Obama (whom this newspaper enthusiastically supported in 2008 and 2012)... [read post]
10 Oct 2020, 2:23 pm
  And yet it appears that the House intelligence Committee he chairs has now produced a Report that aligns quite nicely with President Trump's  National Security Strategy of the US with which the America First Initiative is conjoined (Ruminations 76: From Global to Fortress America; Thoughts on "National Security Strategy of the United States" (4 Dec 2017)). [read post]