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27 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
When Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, they piously announced that the American People should have a voice in selecting his successor, denying a hearing to Barack Obama’s nominee, the center-left Judge Merrick Garland. [read post]
27 Oct 2020, 10:26 am
"The return of the prose style of Barack Obama, from an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, published in The New Yorker under the title, "A President Looks Back on His Toughest Fight The story behind the Obama Administration’s most enduring—and most contested—legacy: reforming American health care. [read post]
” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer pointed out the “glaring hypocrisy” in this process after Republican Senators refused to consider former president Barack Obama’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 2016 due it being an election year. [read post]
In 2012, President Barack Obama afforded some protections to individuals who had been brought to the United States without documentation while they were children through a program called DACA. [read post]
In 2012, President Barack Obama afforded some protections to individuals who had been brought to the United States without documentation while they were children through a program called DACA. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 8:34 pm by Amy Howe
Barrett’s nomination and confirmation process played out against the backdrop of President Barack Obama’s March 2016 nomination of Merrick Garland, the highly respected chief judge of the U.S. [read post]
24 Oct 2020, 4:07 am
We’ve seen that pattern going back to him questioning the legitimacy of Barack Obama, going back to Charlottesville. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 11:00 am by Steve Vladeck
Bush and Barack Obama — when the solicitor general sought such relief eight times, or once every other year. [read post]
21 Oct 2020, 3:01 am
This is about Florida: In 2008, Democrats held nearly a 700,000 voter registration advantage and Barack Obama carried the state by 236,148 votes. [read post]
17 Oct 2020, 4:14 pm by INFORRM
Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden accused Republicans of hypocrisy after they moved to nominate a replacement, contradicting their stonewalling of Barack Obama’s candidate for the Supreme Court in 2016 because it was in an election year. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 8:39 pm by James Romoser
Democrats on the Judiciary Committee continued to argue on Thursday – as they did all week — that Republicans were rushing Barrett’s confirmation in direct contradiction with their actions in 2016, when they blocked President Barack Obama from filling a Supreme Court vacancy that occurred nine months before the election. [read post]
15 Oct 2020, 7:10 am by Searcy Law
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed to bring Trump’s nominee to a vote, even though he had blocked President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland just four years earlier because it was an election year. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 8:05 pm by Marty Lederman
Kennedy, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, this year I also assigned two other readings:  a 1998 article co-written by Amy V. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 5:40 pm by James Romoser
Many Democrats also accused the Republicans of hypocrisy for attempting to confirm Barrett in the month leading up to the 2020 presidential election – four years after Republicans refused to allow President Barack Obama to fill a Supreme Court vacancy during an election year. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 8:54 am by Ravi S. Nagi
“In 2008, I met Barack Obama and supported his campaign to win the primary in the U.S. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 8:06 am by Jane Turner
She re-entered the workforce, employed in hotel/restaurant management, until 2008, when she responded to Barack Obama’s call for citizens to join the government. [read post]