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13 Jan 2021, 11:05 am by John Elwood
They challenge President Barack Obama’s creation of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod, designated as a national monument to protect three underwater canyons, four undersea mountains, and the natural resources and ecosystems around them. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 3:05 pm by Ana Popovich
  Burns retired from his post as Deputy Secretary of State in 2014 after serving under former President Barack Obama: his tenure with the administration garnered praise from Obama and former Secretary of State John Kerry. [read post]
10 Jan 2021, 9:08 pm by Ilya Somin
FDR got away with internment of Japanese-Americans in concentration camps, Woodrow Wilson engaged in  massive violations of civil liberties, and—most recently— Barack Obama's started two wars without the congressional authorization required by the Constitution. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 9:05 pm by Jasmine Wang
After President Barack Obama signed the ACA, the law required insurance companies to cover certain preventive services, such as birth control and contraceptives, with no charge to patients. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 2:53 pm by Timothy B. Lee
" Members of this community have baselessly accused liberal leaders like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and George Soros of running a sex trafficking ring and attempting to organize a coup against President Trump. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 12:31 pm by Scott Bomboy
Prominent examples included President Barack Obama’s commutation of a jail sentence for Wikileaks figure Chelsea Manning; President Bill Clinton’s pardon of his own brother, Roger (who had served a one-year jail sentence on a drug conviction); and President Ronald Reagan’s pardon of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for charges related to illegal campaign contributions made to Nixon’s 1972 reelection campaign. [read post]
6 Jan 2021, 6:00 am by Peter Briccetti
In 2016, Barack Obama nominated Garland to fill a vacant seat on the Supreme Court. [read post]
5 Jan 2021, 9:03 pm by Peter Jacobs
” Similar messages popped up on the Twitter feeds of former President Barack Obama, rapper Kanye West, and billionaire investor Warren Buffett, among other high-profile accounts. [read post]
4 Jan 2021, 2:47 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Over the longer term, the president’s falsehoods may also undermine Biden’s overall governing capability, just as the racist “birther” conspiracy theory, another false claim spread by Trump, helped fuel political resistance to Barack Obama’s presidency. [read post]
2 Jan 2021, 8:16 am by Robert B. Lamm
  They included: A Promised Land, by Barack Obama: One of the finest memoirs I’ve ever read, President Obama’s memoir is fascinating, straightforward, and clearly written by him; it’s a printed version of his voice. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 9:03 pm by Joshua Burd
APRIL The Trump Administration finalized an interagency rule cutting back Obama-era standards for fuel economy and vehicle emissions. [read post]
29 Dec 2020, 10:49 am by Jack Goldsmith, Matt Gluck
This typically happens, for example, in clemency actions that relate to high-stakes presidential policy decisions, such as Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, or Barack Obama’s clemency initiative (which in part led the pardon attorney to resign). [read post]
Under former President Barack Obama, the agency in 2016 announced its official finding that GHG emitted as a result of airplane emissions “cause or contribute to air pollution that may be reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health and welfare of current and future generations. [read post]
24 Dec 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Though it was true that Trump slightly outperformed the prior Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, among Black voters, Romney was running against Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president; the baseline was low. [read post]
A Texas-led coalition of nine states urged Tuesday a federal judge to invalidate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), arguing that DACA was unlawfully created by former President Barack Obama. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 7:30 am by Amanda Frost
Oddly, however, Braver does not include in his analysis the Senate’s refusal in 2016 to confirm any nominee to the Supreme Court during President Barack Obama’s final year in office. [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 9:47 am by Howard Iken
Hillary Clinton loses the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama. 2009 – The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act allows victims, usually women, of pay discrimination to file a complaint with the government against their employer within 180 days of their last paycheck. 2013 – The ban against women in military combat positions is removed, overturning a 1994 Pentagon decision restricting women from combat roles. 2016 – Hillary Rodham Clinton secures the Democratic… [read post]