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24 Sep 2020, 4:04 am
Cuando el presidente Barack Obama nominó a un conocido jurista para llenar la vacante, el liderato republicano en el Senado alegó que era impropio hacer un nombramiento al Tribunal Supremo en un año electoral. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 1:18 pm
Of course, that doesn't always work: Justice Scalia died after almost 30 years on the high court trying to wait out President Barack Obama, and Justice Ginsburg died after nearly 27 years trying to outlast President Trump. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 9:00 am
Of course, that doesn’t always work: Justice Scalia died after almost 30 years on the high court trying to wait out President Barack Obama, and Justice Ginsburg died after nearly 27 years trying to outlast President Trump.Over all, though, strategic retirements give the justices too much power in picking their own successors, which can lead to a self-perpetuating oligarchy. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 6:16 am
” I bet it was her woman-of-the-people dissent, not the staid official presentation, that prompted President Barack Obama to make the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act the first legislation he signed in office. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 5:26 am
Of course, that doesn't always work: Justice Scalia died after almost 30 years on the high court trying to wait out President Barack Obama, and Justice Ginsburg died after nearly 27 years trying to outlast President Trump. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 4:33 am
Of course, that doesn’t always work: Justice Scalia died after almost 30 years on the high court trying to wait out President Barack Obama, and Justice Ginsburg died after nearly 27 years trying to outlast President Trump. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 1:51 am
They also believe they should focus on what they view as a blatant power grab by the GOP to jam a nominee through on the eve of a national election, contradicting the Republican refusal to move on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee eight months before the 2016 election. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 7:24 am
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) issued a statement in which he sought to distinguish his refusal to give President Barack Obama’s last Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, a Senate floor vote during an election year and his pledge that Justice Ginsburg’s replacement will get such a vote.Class actions. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 7:06 am
He can pick Barack Obama. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 5:37 am
Here's this morning's sunrise, photographed at 6:50:The actual sunrise time was 6:45, but more interesting than that is that The Equinox is coming at 8:30 CDT this morning.But if politics interests you more than nature, you'll want to hang on for my wonderful plan for Joe Biden to bring back our friend, the pleasantest President, Barack Obama. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 5:21 am
“The decreases reversed gains that began near the end of the Great Recession and accelerated during early years of expanded access to health plans and Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act — the sprawling law that was a signature domestic achievement of President Barack Obama and has been derided by Republicans, including Trump, ever since. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 4:00 am
El 16 de julio de 2019, el exjuez asociado del Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos, John Paul Stevens, falleció a los 99 años. [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 10:40 am
Their leader, Jason Kessler, was a 33-year-old who lived with his parents and had once supported Barack Obama. [read post]
Support for U.S. Intelligence Continues, Despite Presidential Attacks and Concerns Over Transparency
21 Sep 2020, 10:10 am
Neither then-President Barack Obama nor key congressional leaders who were informed of the controversial programs acted forcefully to reassure Americans that the NSA had acted in a manner that was both effective in keeping them safe and respectful of their civil liberties. [read post]
20 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm
After the election of Barack Obama, for instance, the NRA parlayed fear of the new President into “a dramatic increase in membership,” and gun sales surged 60 percent. [read post]
20 Sep 2020, 6:30 am
Poco después, se creó legislación y una ley sobre este tema, una de las primeras leyes firmadas por Barack Obama y que llevaba el nombre de la demandante, el Ledbetter Act. [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 10:40 am
Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Science, weigh in on who has the most to lose before the election if a nomination is completed, how this situation differs from the Senate-stalled Merrick Garland nomination in 2016 while Barack Obama was still president and why the nomination system needs to change. [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 10:07 am
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 19, 2020ADDED: From Barack Obama's statement on the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg:Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn’t fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in.A basic principle of the law — and of everyday fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency,… [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 6:45 am
Critics will point out that this commitment is at odds with his position in 2016, when Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, and McConnell refused to hold hearings because, in an election year, the decision on who should appoint a new justice should be made at the ballot box. [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 6:30 am
For the Symposium on Jack M. [read post]
