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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]
18 Sep 2020, 6:26 pm
Although President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland in March 2016 to take Scalia’s place, Garland’s nomination went nowhere, and Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the U.S. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 8:54 am
In 2008 and 2012, Barack Obama, was assailed by "birthers" who falsely claimed he was born outside the United States. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 6:21 am
Jim Doyle, a Democrat, recounted in an interview how his political machine helped John Kerry and Barack Obama carry the state in 2004 and 2008, respectively. 'In both of those elections it was really my political organization that was kind of at the heart of where most of the work was done — most of it was ground work,' Doyle said. [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 4:00 am
Periodically on Thursdays, we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 7:04 am
President Barack Obama appointed U.S. [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 6:30 am
This is especially notable in Republican administrations, as with the obscenity of the Trump “tax cut,” but also, if truth be known, in the more-or-less “neo-liberal” administrations of both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, where the well-off became even better off even if there were also some efforts, as with the Earned Income Tax Credit or Obamacare, to pay at least some attention to the plight of those seen by Mitt Romney in 2012 as “the… [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 5:01 am
Conversations between President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in 2016 homed in on cybersecurity, laying the ground for a subsequent Track 1.5 Dialogue. [read post]
15 Sep 2020, 7:32 am
Bush and Barack Obama. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 8:41 am
Durham’s Investigation of Then FBI Director Comey in 2017 Schmidt reports in his book that around March 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions tapped Durham—then an assistant United States attorney in Connecticut—to open a leak investigation into FBI Director James Comey following reporting by the New York Times that Comey had asked the Justice Department to refute Trump’s baseless allegations that former President Barack Obama had ordered the wiretapping of… [read post]
13 Sep 2020, 7:18 pm
Bauer, who was general counsel on both of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, said the operation would be “far more sophisticated and resourced” than those during past campaigns. [read post]
13 Sep 2020, 9:50 am
To be sure, much of Trump’s Mideast success has to do with big strategic decisions that reversed Barack Obama’s approach. [read post]
13 Sep 2020, 8:38 am
The 2016 executive order was brought in by then-President Barack Obama, who was under pressure to be more transparent. [read post]
