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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]
8 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
The day before he left office in 2017, Barack Obama issued pardons to 330 non-violent drug offenders because he concluded that they posed no threat to public safety, even though a public “tough on crime” mentality might have resulted in his taking unjustified heat for that decision had he made it earlier in his presidency.Likewise, between November and the end of December in even-numbered years Congress sometimes reaches agreement on worthwhile legislation that politics… [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
              Over the last decade, an obvious cause for exceptional public interest in immigration law presidentialism has been the aggressiveness of both Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump in using “executive action” to pursue vastly different visions of appropriate immigration enforcement. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 4:06 am by rainey Reitman
Kennedy and has over 18 years of political organizing and advocacy experience, including serving as Virginia State Director at GenerationEngage, and working as the North Carolina Field Director for Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign and other roles throughout the campaign. [read post]
7 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
President Barack Obama, by comparison, granted clemency 1,927 times during his two terms.In these pardons, as in many other areas, Trump routinely violates long-standing norms and procedures. [read post]
7 Dec 2020, 4:18 pm by INFORRM
A good deal of credit for this can be put down to inquiries led by two people, Dame Frances Cairncross and Jason Furman (the former chief economist to US president Barack Obama). [read post]
4 Dec 2020, 8:35 pm by lennyesq
District Judge Nicholas Garaufis said in his six-page ruling that he was fully reinstating the DACA program based on the terms established under former President Barack Obama’s administration. [read post]
4 Dec 2020, 8:34 am by Tom Smith
He explained that when they disagree it’s similar to when he and Barack Obama disagree. [read post]
3 Dec 2020, 12:34 pm by Ilya Somin
Democrats understandably cried foul, and pointed out how the GOP's actions contradicted their own insistence, in 2016 (when President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia), that Supreme Court nominations should not be taken up in an election year. [read post]
3 Dec 2020, 9:41 am by Andrew Kent
For example, President Barack Obama directed that prosecutions of 10 deep-cover Russian sleeper agents be dropped in 2010 and the spies returned to Russia, as a part of a swap for four people detained by Russia whom the president wished to liberate. [read post]
2 Dec 2020, 4:12 pm by Yalitza Ledgister
Alexander Martin, Vernice Armour, Barack Obama, and Kamala Harris are not exceptions or anomalies. [read post]