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31 Jul 2017, 7:05 am by Bob Bauer
Lindsay Graham appears to be leading this charge, working with Corey Booker and others, and they plan to introduce a bill this week. [read post]
6 Jun 2017, 7:29 am by Michael Leiter
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the proposal was met with vociferous opposition by both industry and a wide-variety of issue-oriented groups, which (along with the Obama Administration’s lack of support) led to the bill’s demise. [read post]
28 Apr 2015, 10:26 am by WOLFGANG DEMINO
The institution can also choose to return the payment if it is a check, online bill payment, or direct debit, and then charge a non-sufficient funds fee. [read post]
19 Mar 2023, 5:09 pm by David Super
  At one time, when Congress had many conservative but principled Republicans such as Bob Dole, Richard Lugar, and Bill Emerson, this clearly would have been true:  those leaders would cooperate on meeting genuine needs but fiercely refuse to deal with anyone they regarded as acting in bad faith. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
” (319) Judge Richard Posner asked the “killer question during oral argument in the Indiana and Wisconsin marriage cases” (579): Does a society recognizing lesbian and gay marriages provide adopted or fostered children the possibility for better life opportunities than a society that does not recognize those marriages or that affirmatively disrespects and even penalizes such families? [read post]
19 Oct 2022, 5:16 am by Rachael Bade, Karoun Demirjian
In a further break from the Clinton and Nixon impeachments, Pelosi never reached out to Republican lawmakers to fashion the rules of the road for impeachment, as Democrats did while launching their probes of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton—and even told her team it wasn’t worth trying to persuade Republican voters of Trump’s guilt. [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 2:30 pm
In a comprehensive and persuasive report published in December by the Brookings Institution, Norman Eisen and Richard Painter, former ethics experts for Presidents Obama and George W. [read post]
27 Jan 2021, 6:01 am by Philip Bobbitt
Apart from these considerations, pruning the disqualification penalty away from its basis in removal creates a bill of attainder, a punishment levied by a legislative body without a criminal trial. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 5:35 am by Chris Mirasola
Washington Re-Engages Asian Allies President Donald Trump on phone with world leaders (Photo: Yahoo News) James Mattis traveled to Japan and South Korea this week, his first overseas visits as Secretary of Defense. [read post]
4 May 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Jackson, in his famous Veto of the bill renewing the charter of the Bank of the United States declared first that “Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority…. [read post]
16 Jun 2014, 5:56 am by Guest Blogger
Even worse, as Neil Richards and Margot Kaminski argue with respect to social readers, these disclosures harmed users' privacy and deterred people from engaging with new ideas. [read post]
17 Dec 2018, 10:44 am by Bob Bauer, Quinta Jurecic
The momentum toward the impeachment of Richard Nixon was not all about campaign finance, but the financing of the president's reelection effort was at least part of the story and received explicit mention in the articles of impeachment. [read post]
22 Oct 2015, 12:17 pm by Elina Saxena, Cody M. Poplin
An American soldier has been killed in action during a raid while attempting to free hostages held at an Islamic State compound in Iraq. [read post]
20 Feb 2018, 11:00 am by Julia Solomon-Strauss, Stephen Szrom
Wells pointed to a letter from Baker saying that Kammen would bill hours for staying on the case until new learned counsel was appointed. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 9:05 am by David Priess
This doesn’t match the pattern of daily or near-daily briefings that some presidents-elect have established during their transitions, but it easily outpaces other incoming commanders in chief like Richard Nixon—who, in 1968-69, set a low point by taking exactly zero briefings from intelligence officers before his inauguration. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Her answer is that the health issue was a motivating tool, useful for fund-raising during the post-Casey period when Bill Clinton was in the White House and the right to abortion appeared to many to be safe. [read post]