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11 Apr 2018, 9:45 am by Shriver Center
This obligation to affirmatively further fair housing is crucial to undoing the decades of government sanctioned discrimination.But segregation and discrimination have stubbornly persisted, resulting in harmful consequences for people of color, who end up in neighborhoods with poorly funded schools, fewer well-paying jobs, and less opportunities at upward mobility.Recognizing this, the Obama Administration issued a rule in 2015 to improve implementation of the affirmatively furthering duty.… [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 8:24 am by Anthony Gaughan
" In 2011 President Obama defended his bombing campaign in Libya as necessary to prevent a humanitarian disaster. [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 8:12 am by Daniel Byman
The dominant U.S. position in the Middle East slipped under President Obama. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 1:27 pm by Tom Smith
1) The Obama administration’s invitation to Vladimir Putin to come into Syria ostensibly to stop the use of weapons of mass destruction. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 12:42 pm by Tom Smith
Instead, Obama struck a deal with Assad and Putin for the removal of chemical weapons from the Syrian war. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 12:37 pm by Tom Smith
There is much speculation as to the significance of the search of the offices and hotel room of President TrumpDonald John TrumpChinese president vows to 'significantly lower' auto import tariff amid trade dispute McConnell sends warning over nomination votes Kudlow confronted over attacks on Obama deficit after rejecting CBO's projections on Trump budget MORE’s lawyer, Michael Cohen. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 11:59 am by Jack Goldsmith, Oona Hathaway
As one of us (Goldsmith) said of this theory when Barack Obama was considering it in 2013: Its main problem is that it places no limit at all on the president’s ability to use significant military force unilaterally. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 9:58 am by CJLF Staff
  The Obama administration thought so, and implemented "Rethink Discipline" guidelines in 2014 calling for reduced suspensions and expulsions, citing data showing that students of color and those with disabilities were up to three times as likely as white students to face these punishments, often for similar nonviolent offenses. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 6:30 am by Quinta Jurecic
Similarly, Obama wanted the public to understand that he was personally accountable for each act of violence. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 6:23 am by Jeff Rosen
Throughout this week, I'll argue that Taft's refusal to rule by executive order, and his insistence that Congress exercise its constitutional duty to debate questions like trade policy, foreign policy, and environmental policy is especially relevant at a time when presidents from Barack Obama to Donald Trump have, in the spirit of Theodore Roosevelt, usurped Congress's constitutional prerogatives, claiming that they alone have a populist mandate directly from the people. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 5:34 am
Williamson, is highlighting Obama's failure as Syria gas-attacks its way onto the news front-burner this week.) [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 5:00 am by Alan Z. Rozenshtein
Geltzer, former senior director for counterterrorism at the Obama National Security Council, argues that requiring encrypted services to provide third-party (i.e., government) access could inadvertently push “savvy” terrorists (and some of their less-savvy colleagues) towards encrypted alternatives. [read post]
8 Apr 2018, 6:36 am by Douglas A. Berman
Here is its abstract: On January 4, 2018, the Trump Administration through Attorney General Sessions rescinded an Obama-era policy that discouraged federal prosecutors from bringing charges... [read post]
8 Apr 2018, 5:56 am by Cannabis Law Group
However, the department has already lifted Obama-era protections that also covered recreational operations, which partially prompted the letter. [read post]
7 Apr 2018, 7:34 pm by Howard Bashman
“Judge’s Death Gives Trump a Chance to Remake a Vexing Court”: In Sunday’s edition of The New York Times, Carl Hulse will have a new installment of his “On Washington” column that begins, “In the spring of 2014, a friend tried to nudge Judge Stephen Reinhardt, then an 83-year-old liberal stalwart on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, into stepping aside from full-time duties so President Barack Obama could nominate a… [read post]
7 Apr 2018, 5:00 am by Family Law
President Donald Trump’s administration said on Thursday it would no longer presume that many pregnant women detained by immigration authorities should be released from custody, reversing an Obama-era directive. [read post]