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5 Feb 2018, 8:13 am
... but if the biggest problem with the Nunes memo was that it isolated a few things out of context, then you ought to want to hear the whole context that contains that one juicy remark.Jr. begins with, "What if Bush had done this to Obama? [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 6:10 am
Simply by way of example, new legislation imposed additional obligations on employers that operate in New Jersey and New York; federal Courts of Appeals “clarified” standards applicable to workplace discrimination claims; and under the Trump Administration, several agencies—particularly the NLRB—began to rein in some of the more far-reaching policies and decisions from the Obama era. [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 4:57 am
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her advisers have made a remarkably good start at ending the Obama administration’s abuse of federal regulatory power to attack the due-process rights of university students accused of sexual assault. [read post]
5 Feb 2018, 3:03 am
Chicago mayor not the only one pushing this awful idea: New Mexico lawmakers propose requiring high school grads to apply to college or file alternate life plan [Dan Boyd, Albuquerque Journal] “New York’s Bid to Control Religious Schools” [Avi Schick, WSJ/Yeshiva World] “Couple’s three girls were taken away after Walmart reported innocent bath time photos” [Derek Hawkins, WaPo/The State, Jacob Sullum, Reason] Also soliciting public comment: “Education… [read post]
4 Feb 2018, 7:00 am
These are words Republicans used for nearly a decade to describe President Barack Obama’s management of threats posed by Salafi-Jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. [read post]
3 Feb 2018, 6:01 pm
And it illustrates a larger effort of the prior administration to warp FBI investigations of Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized and illegal email server and other purported improper behavior, as well as efforts of Obama-administration officials to improperly request unmasking of improperly surveilled Americans for improperly political purposes. [read post]
3 Feb 2018, 5:46 pm
But now that Obama is out of office, his ability to intimidate is much diminished. [read post]
3 Feb 2018, 9:20 am
This move comes on the heels of Sessions rescinding a directive, known as the Cole Memo, issued in 2013 by the Department of Justice during the Obama administration, which indicated that federal prosecutors should not pursue charges in relation to illegal marijuana activity so long as those in question were abiding by state laws. [read post]
3 Feb 2018, 6:19 am
If so, that would mean that the FISA court is aware of that, which is really scary.Great question, because if the argument is what was done is fine because it's normal, we need to talk about the problem with FISA normal.And it's an old exercise, and I hate to trot out clichés, but imagine if the Bush Justice Department had used the FISA court to get a warrant to surveil people on Barack Obama's presidential campaign by using evidence that came from someone paid by the… [read post]
3 Feb 2018, 5:10 am
Kahn shared President Trump’s executive order, announced during Tuesday night's speech, revoking President Obama’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 2:05 pm
Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 12:19 pm
In a Post/ABC News poll released Jan. 21, Obama won, ... [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 12:16 pm
"I'm reading an article in The Washington Post that lists Trump's new words — along with the corresponding words by Presidents Obama, George W. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 11:30 am
ICE has also ramped up arrests at courthouses, which dissuades victims and witnesses from reporting crimes or testifying in trials, and rescinded an Obama-era directive instructing agents to exercise discretion with military veterans and college students who are undocumented. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 8:56 am
" A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.ALSO: I cut and pasted that text from The Pacifica Radio/UC Berkeley Social Activism Sound Recording Project, where "corps" was transcribed as "core," perhaps under the misimpression (recently displayed by President Obama) that "corps" is pronounced "corpse. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 8:47 am
" He described Presidents Obama and Bush as "Kuffar disbelievers" and "defenders of the antichrist," and said that he wanted to travel to Syria to fight against them and their armies. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 7:00 am
Post, Feb. 2, 2018The Environmental Protection Agency has seen an uptick in requests for emails, memos, calendars, and other public records related to work by top officials aiming to strip President Obama's environmental legacy.Amid the deluge, one of the many environmental groups opposed to that regulatory rollback has accused the EPA of ignoring a request for information.Late Thursday, the Sierra Club sued the EPA for not responding quickly enough to a request filed in October… [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 5:54 am
Our dear readers are probably by now aware that the United States Federal Communication Commission (FCC) voted (along party lines, incidentally) to end net neutrality rules put in place during the Obama presidency. [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm
Even so, more needs to be said.In a recent column, I explained how Trump’s sales pitch essentially boils down to taking credit for not having ruined the very good situation that he inherited from Barack Obama. [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 5:58 pm
How We Got Here In September 2017, President Trump announced that, effective March 2018, his administration would end the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects from deportation some 800,000 young adults (often called Dreamers) brought to the United States as children. [read post]
