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29 Apr 2024, 8:09 am
  One recalls the scandal during the Obama Administration when in the wake of the 2013 Snowden leaks the leading powers went looking for him. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 1:28 pm
Pecker also said AMI helped obtain and suppress stories about the actor Mark Wahlberg and Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama's first chief of staff and later the mayor of Chicago.Would all those men be monsters too — Schwarzenegger, Woods, Wahlberg, Emanuel — if their antagonists could just heap up all the stories the Enquirer killed for pay? [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 3:45 am by jonathanturley
Finally, if there is no immunity, could President Barack Obama be prosecuted for ordering the killing of a citizen by drone attack and then killing his son in a second drone attack? [read post]
Sauer asked whether President Obama could face murder charges for killing Americans overseas by ordering drone strikes. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 3:45 pm
Could President Obama be charged with murder for killing U.S. citizens abroad by drone strike? [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 3:16 pm by Mark Walsh
In the bar section, Neal Katyal, a former acting U.S. solicitor general under President Barack Obama is here, as is Seth Waxman, a former solicitor general under President Bill Clinton. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 2:14 pm by Susan Schneider
President Barack Obama, the 2021 Congressional Hunger Center Trailblazer Hunger Leadership Award and the Tim Wapato Public Advocate of the Year Award from the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 10:12 am by Jon Brodkin
Cable and telecom companies plan to fight the rules in court, but they lost a similar battle during the Obama era when judges upheld the FCC's ability to regulate ISPs as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 7:57 am by Dan Farber
EPA believes — and I agree — that it has avoided the fatal flaw the Court saw in the Obama rule. [read post]
25 Apr 2024, 3:00 am by Yosi Yahoudai
” Shaun Donovan, former Housing and Urban Development secretary under the Obama administration and now president and chief executive of a national housing nonprofit, said he’s bracing for a decision that will further exacerbate what is “already the worst homelessness crisis that we’ve seen in the history of the country. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 9:05 pm by Gianna Hill
Under the Obama Administration, the United States expanded the use of drones. [read post]
These latest regulations from the DOL appear susceptible to the same challenges raised by employer groups to the Obama-era regulations that were withdrawn. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 6:19 am by Adam R. Long and Austin Wolfe
In 2016, the Obama Administration DOL issued new regulations that would have more than doubled the minimum weekly salary requirement for most white-collar overtime exemptions from $455 ($23,660 annually) to $913 ($47,476 annually). [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 6:06 am by Daniel Schwartz
If this sounds familiar, it’s because the Obama administration attempted to do the same thing in 2020 (only to have its rule held up in legal challenges). [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 6:05 am by Delaney Simon
For example, while President Obama relaxed sanctions on Cuba in 2016, Congress did not rescind the Helms-Burton Act (1996), which maintained the U.S. embargo on Cuba. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 5:57 am by Norman L. Eisen
This autocracy threat tracker is also available as a PDF file. [read post]
It is worth remembering that the Obama Administration’s 2016 rule revising the FLSA exemptions in a similar fashion—i.e., an increased salary threshold with automatic, inflation-based increases—was stymied by legal challenges and a new administration and never came into effect. [read post]
23 Apr 2024, 11:53 am by Steven Calabresi
When President Barack Obama ordered the killing of a known terrorist by a Predator Drone Strike, which accidently led to the death of a U.S. citizen who was physically near that terrorist, President Obama could not be prosecuted for that act because the death of the American citizen was an unintended consequence of President Obama's legitimate exercise of his executive power as Commander in Chief. [read post]