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2 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Even if Republicans were consistently wrong in saying that Barack Obama was a tyrant who governed by decree, it is possible that this particular Treasury proposal would be within the president’s power. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 2:37 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
This is up from an average of 1.5 suits each during the Bush years and 2.4 suits during the Obama period. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 2:25 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Under the Obama plan, the fleetwide fuel economy would have risen gradually to roughly 47 mpg by 2025. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 2:14 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
While a recent reduction in the federal prison population helped precipitate a phasing out of private contracts during the Obama administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions abruptly reversed the plan in early 2017. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 1:00 pm
” (These kinds of euphemisms aren’t entirely new — the Obama administration played around with the term “family-friendly” to describe these detention centers — only cruder.) [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 10:10 am by Megan Geuss
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday morning, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed freezing fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles at 2020 levels, erasing the gradual fuel economy increases that were signed into law by the Obama administration just before Trump took office. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 9:48 am by Tom Smith
A final rulemaking issued Wednesday reverses an Obama-era regulation that exposed the sick to medical underwriting. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 9:41 am by Tom Smith
“Under some Obama-era intelligence chiefs, intelligence was used as a political weapon. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 6:53 am by Matthew Kolken
If only Michelle Obama had the strength of character to speak out against her husband's policies of jailing refugee children in deportation internment camps. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 5:30 am
The law couldn't pass today and had Obama told the truth instead of lying shamelessly, even Democrats would have never voted for this law in the first placeHalf right. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 2:49 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
And while his ratings are also the most polarized along party lines, this divide represents a continuation of a trend seen in assessments of recent presidents, including Barack Obama and George W. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 2:25 pm by Ilya Somin
One of the purposes of this policy, which Attorney General Jeff Sessions reinstated last year after it had been curbed by the Obama administration, is to circumvent state laws preventing law enforcement from profiting from seizures. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 1:42 pm by Associated Press
The Trump administration on Wednesday cleared the way for insurers to sell short-term health plans as a bargain alternative to pricey Obama-law policies for people struggling with high premiums. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 10:06 am by Kent Scheidegger
  These include, consistent with the interpretation by the Obama Administration DoJ, the Byrne grants for local law enforcement.It is one thing to interpret the Executive Order differently, as the majority does. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 8:34 am by Jenna Consigli
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January that revoked President Barack Obama’s directive to close Guantanamo Bay and required Defense Secretary James Mattis to develop criteria for transferring captured suspects there. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 7:29 am by Tom Smith
On July 3, the Trump administration rescinded the Obama approach to race-based college admissions. [read post]
31 Jul 2018, 7:06 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
-Russia summit since 2010, when President Barack Obama met with Putin’s predecessor Dmitry Medvedev in Prague to sign the New START strategic arms reduction treaty. [read post]
31 Jul 2018, 2:52 pm by Ilya Somin
Ayres and Witt argue that their "court-balancing" plan would not set a dangerous precedent because it would merely be "a temporary intervention tailored to rectify the Senate's prior dereliction in the Garland nomination" (referring to the GOP-controlled Senate's refusal to vote on Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016). [read post]
31 Jul 2018, 2:31 pm by Elie Mystal
The Obama administration did the kids a solid before they left. [read post]