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10 Jan 2018, 6:18 pm
” The official did not offer more details or evidence in his testimony at the hearing that was chaired by Republican Senator Marco Rubio, one of the politicians most critical of the softened Cuba policy promoted by former President Barack Obama. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 1:51 pm
Baele, Thierry Balzacq, & Philippe Bourbeau, Numbers in global security governance Meredith Loken & Anna Zelenz, Explaining extremism: Western women in Daesh Luca Trenta, The Obama administration’s conceptual change: Imminence and the legitimation of targeted killings Marcus Schulzke, Necessary and surplus militarisation: Rethinking civil-military interactions and their consequences Freya Irani, ‘Lawfare’, US military discourse, and the colonial constitution of… [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 12:02 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
In the middle of a hotly contested political battle among members of Congress, to pass a permanent legislative solution shielding Dreamers from deportation, late yesterday evening a federal judge in San Francisco handed down a ruling blocking the Trump administration from phasing out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program enacted by former President Barack Obama. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 11:51 am by Forrest G. Read IV
  Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security when the Obama Administration instituted the DACA program and current President of University of California system, is one of the lead plaintiffs in the case. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 9:03 am by Jourdan Day
Recently, the NLRB has been busy taking steps to undo some of the more labor and employee friendly standards and opinions that were implemented under the Obama Administration. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 8:34 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
Robert Mikos (Vanderbilt) has this post on his website, citing to other posts and offering his own critique. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 8:12 am
I’m talking you go back throughout the eight years of Obama and you go before that, the animosity and the hatred between Republicans and Democrats.I remember when I used to go out in Washington, and I’d see Democrats having dinner with Republicans. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 7:47 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
The explanations for this phenomenon are wide and varied, and include the time-lag between Obama-appointed enforcement personnel vacating their offices and Trump-appointed personnel taking charge of agency decision-making power; the number of lawsuits “in the pipeline” that were filed during the Obama Administration that came to conclusion in the past year; and the “hold-over” effect whereby Obama-appointed policy-makers remained in their positions… [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 7:13 am by Elizabeth A. Khalil
The January 4 Sessions Action On January 4, 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the rescission of the Cole Memoranda, a series of issuances from senior DOJ officials during the Obama era. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 5:00 am by Harry Graver
Additionally, in 2016, the Obama administration maintained the unilateral arms embargo on Burma to comply with the IRFA, even though the president has issued an executive order lifting all U.S. economic and financial sanctions on the country. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 4:24 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Prosecutors have appealed the case to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, where three votes to uphold the conviction are virtually guaranteed.Clemency beneficiary reoffendsWhen Barack Obama issued sentence commutations to hundreds of drug offenders, it was inevitable that some of them would eventually reoffend. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 4:19 am by Scott Bomboy
Alsup also said the one of Trump administration’s reasons for ending DACA, that it was illegally implemented by the Obama administration, was based on a flawed legal premise. [read post]
10 Jan 2018, 3:05 am by Walter Olson
HUD suspends until 2020 Obama-era “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” (AFFH) program [Emily Badger and John Eligon/New York Times, earlier] New conspiracy-minded attack on foodmakers’ use of sugar is led by Stanton Glantz. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
That policy was set forth in a series of memoranda, including the so-called Cole memo of 2013.Last week’s announcement rescinds the Cole memo and related Obama administration guidance documents. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 2:24 pm by SHanson
The current roles that were enacted in 2016 by the Obama administrations gave students more recourse in obtaining loan forgiveness if the schools they attended violated federal law. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 2:06 pm by Bill Otis
Here is his post, verbatim:On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he was rescinding all of the Obama administration's enforcement guidance that had foresworn enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act against marijuana that was legal under state law.There has been plenty of criticism of Sessions's new position, including from my co-bloggers Ilya and Jonathan here. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 11:30 am by klastufka
., the American Bar Association, the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Obama administration have issued position statements against breed-discriminatory laws. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 11:13 am by Amy Howe
” It doesn’t matter when Obama signed Mitchell’s commission, they suggest, as long as Mitchell was exercising the functions of a judge when he ruled on their cases. [read post]
This agency action is not shocking given how the Trump Administration has been rolling back Obama-era rules and regulations and since FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has not been focusing his efforts on FSMA implementation; his priority list has instead focused on things like the opioid crisis, drug pricing, mobile medical application development, and streamlining clinical trials. [read post]