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1 Jul 2011, 4:00 am
Mark Thoma, in Barack Obama Fail Department, highlights Brad DeLong's justified rant against Obama's (and his handlers') deafness about the real issues and the position he should be taken to fight the right-wing's attack on the entire New Deal. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 8:04 pm
Certainly, it fell far short of implementing Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign promise to stop medical marijuana prosecutions in states where medical marijuana is legal.Now the Justice Department has issued a new memo to federal prosecutors emphasizing that it has no intention of discouraging federal medical marijuana prosecutions, regardless of state law:The Department’s view of the efficient use of limited federal resources as articulated in the [2009] Ogden… [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 2:14 pm
But in this 2009 executive order President Barack Obama stated that federal law enforcement officials are bound by the Geneva Conventions, stressing the need “to improve the effectiveness of human intelligence gathering [and] to promote the safe, lawful, and humane treatment of individuals in United States custody and of United States personnel who are detained in armed conflicts. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 9:47 am
The book traces Stanley Ann Dunham's life -- including her brief marriage to Barack Obama Sr. and longer, but relatively brief, marriage with an Indonesian... [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 8:57 am
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is part of the 2010 health care reform signed into law by President Barack Obama, and with the rise in nursing home abuse cases in Illinois it could not have come at a better time. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 7:28 am
Family man Barack Obama simply doesn’t know how old his own daughter is. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 7:12 am
Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi: President Barack Obama has nominated a Jackson lawyer as the next U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 7:08 am
After conceding time after time that regulation is burdensome and unnecessary, will even a reelected Barack Obama then argue for providing the funding agencies need to enforce these laws? [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 5:03 pm
Health-Care Law Is Upheld by Appeals Court as High Court Clash LoomsA federal appeals court upheld President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, rejecting arguments that it violates the Constitution by requiring Americans either to buy insurance or pay a penalty. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 3:22 pm
Former Governor Blagojevich’s criminal conviction for trying to sell his power to appoint someone to fill out the rest of the term left on Barack Obama’s Senate seat after Obama had been elected President helps frame this important constitutional question: when must an election, rather than a gubernatorial appointment, be used to fill a vacant Senate seat? [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 12:22 pm
Of course, when Barack Obama mistakenly referred to the "57" states of the United States of America, he did not, unlike Bachmann, stubbornly insist on defending a proposition that was patently false. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 7:24 am
Bush and Barack Obama got what they hoped for when they nominated the justices who will shape the court’s future. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 5:49 am
Even before his own inauguration, then-President-elect Barack Obama nominated Indiana Law Professor Dawn Johnsen, whose Bush-era critiques of the torture memos included an IntlawGrrls guest post. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 3:47 pm
Ten US congressmen, Republican and Democrat, are suing Barack Obama arguing that he exceeded his powers in authorising the operation in Libya. [read post]
COULD REPUBLICANS NOMINATE A FREE-MARKET POPULIST? “I suspect, though, that no Republican really wa…
28 Jun 2011, 3:23 pm
Of course, Barack Obama doesn’t, either — he just wants to pretend he is. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 1:16 pm
[JURIST] US State Department (DOS) [official website] legal adviser Harold Koh [academic profile] on Tuesday told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) [official website] that President Barack Obama is acting within the law [testimony materials] with respect to US military operations in Libya [JURIST backgrounder]. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 10:17 am
President Barack Obama has not nominated anyone for the tax position since his initial choice, Mary Smith, withdrew last year. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 8:34 am
After deliberating for 10 days a federal jury convicted Blagojevich of 17 corruption charges for, among other things, trying to sell President Barack Obama’s old U.S. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 8:26 am
" Ruemmler read a note of thanks from her boss, President Barack Obama. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 2:39 am
The Wall Streeet Journal reports that President Obama had a secret meeting with Senate leaders from both parties yesterday on the issue of tax increases: With time running short to reach a deal to avoid a government default, President Barack Obama met privately Monday with Senate leaders in hopes of resolving an impasse over whether to [...] [read post]
