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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]
18 Dec 2020, 5:30 am by Gene Takagi
Read the full acceptance speech by @WFPChief Director David Beasley.Black Lives Matter: A Promised Land (Barack Obama) [based on the Blinkist 18 min. summary of the best-selling book] A Most Beautiful Thing (film) Back and Up in Arms (Lakeidra Chavis, Code Switch) How Putting on a Mask Raised Naomi Osaka’s Voice (Elena Bergeron, NY Times) Blackish (television series) The post Nonprofit Tweets of the Week – 12/18/20 appeared first on Nonprofit Law Blog. [read post]
17 Dec 2020, 10:53 pm by Jeff Richardson
And finally, this week Marques Brownlee had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question about how he and his team embraced technology, and it is a pretty fascinating video Q&A: [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 11:09 am by Sheila R. Carroll
(Former Chair Mary Jo White stepped down in 2016 after current President Donald Trump’s election[3] and former Chair Mary Schapiro resigned in 2012 after former President Barack Obama’s election.[4]) President-Elect Joe Biden is likely to nominate a new chairman before his inauguration on January 20th, 2021. [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 2:32 am by Deb Givens
Federal Trade Commission and nearly every U.S. state on Wednesday were assigned to two U.S. judges in Washington appointed by former President Barack Obama, federal court records released Friday show. [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 4:01 am by Immigration Prof
However, the Democratic administration of Barack Obama was not all good for immigration policy. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
Tom Vilsack, who served as Secretary of Agriculture for Barack Obama’s entire presidency, is going to take another run at the job, once the Biden Presidency gets up and running. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 3:46 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The United States’ score on the human-rights organization Freedom House’s annual index dropped from 90 out of 100 under President Barack Obama to 86 under Trump, below that of Greece and Mauritius. [read post]