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12 Dec 2017, 3:34 am
The ban was a direct switch from a policy announced by the Obama Administration, which would have protected transgender individuals already serving and would have allowed new transgender recruits as of last June 30. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 3:01 am
In welcome reversal of Obama-era ban, FDA will once more permit direct-to-consumer genetic testing [Meghana Keshavan/STAT News, FDA press release] Will California law hold a pharmaceutical maker liable — in perpetuity — for a drug that it did not make and did not sell? [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 9:30 pm
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will consider whether to repeal regulations adopted in 2015 by the Obama Administration’s FCC that imposed public utility-style mandates on Internet service providers. [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 9:05 pm
Note also, even before the Justice memo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s statement in September, on revoking the Obama Title IX Dear Colleague letter: “The era of ‘rule by letter’ is over. [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 9:01 pm
It was invoked by a majority of the Supreme Court in a 2014 case as the basis for the ruling that the religious conservative owners of the Hobby Lobby stores were entitled to an exemption from the contraception insurance mandate of the Obama administration’s regulations implementing the Affordable Care Act.As written, RFRA also applies to state and local laws, but in a 1997 case the Supreme Court ruled that it could not be constitutionally applied to displace such laws. [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 11:27 am
However, many anticipate that Robb will use certain cases to reverse some of the more controversial Board rulings during the Obama administration. [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 8:44 am
Bray argues that the national injunction--issued in key cases challenging policies of the Trump Administration and, earlier, the Obama Administration--is a recent... [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 8:35 am
The Court had agreed last year to review the controversy as it applies to Title IX in a case involving a transgender high school student in Virginia, but that case was sent back to a lower court after the Trump Administration abandoned the defense of his claim; the Obama Administration had supported that plea. [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 6:40 am
But that was just a for-show exercise, given that President Obama would be certain to veto the legislation anyway. [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 4:36 am
July 7, 2014 — "Is depicting the 'Obama Presidential Library' as an outhouse racist? [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 4:01 am
On college campuses, that shift has been playing out for years, due in part to student activism and to increased attention to campus sexual violence from the Obama administration. [read post]
10 Dec 2017, 9:30 pm
Shortly after Pai took over, the FCC proposed repealing the net neutrality rules imposed by the Obama-era FCC. [read post]
10 Dec 2017, 3:20 pm
In a shift from the Obama White House and a return to the policy of George W. [read post]
10 Dec 2017, 2:00 pm
From Inside Higher Ed: Last week the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission published his plan to dismantle Obama-era regulations protecting "net neutrality" -- the idea that all web content should be treated equally by internet service providers. [read post]
10 Dec 2017, 10:03 am
And liberals who felt ascendant in the Obama years simply couldn’t accept this fear as something to be managed and assuaged; to them, it was either ridiculous alarmism or a cloak for bigotry. [read post]
10 Dec 2017, 5:31 am
Just as it was important, in 1995, for Hillary Clinton to state at the Women’s Congress in Beijing that “human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights,” and for President Obama in 2016 to stress that LGBT rights are human rights, we should all be aware that digital rights are human rights, too. [read post]
9 Dec 2017, 9:18 am
Though the Obama administration sought to expand access to Pell Grants for some prisoners, Congress introduced a bill to block the effort. [read post]
9 Dec 2017, 9:08 am
Those cases were filed by a small group of young adults who are among some 800,000 who have benefitted from the delayed deportation and work and study opportunities provided by the Obama Administration’s adoption of DACA five years ago, along with others supporting their cause. [read post]
9 Dec 2017, 7:00 am
The plan, put forth by current FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and supported in writing by the two other Republican appointees on the five-person commission—thus making its passage likely—would reverse the Obama era decision classifying Broadband Internet Access Service (BIAS) as a telecommunications service. [read post]
9 Dec 2017, 6:59 am
Some imagine President Obama can expand the bounds of national monuments by unilateral proclamation, but President Trump cannot shrink them back by the same mechanism. [read post]
