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22 Dec 2010, 1:06 pm
President Barack Obama's nominees for three circuit judgeships and two district judgeships in Washington won confirmation today, as other judicial nominees remained in limbo. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 12:27 pm
A senior administration official said Tuesday that President Barack Obama's nomination of Virginia Seitz is expected early in 2011, aiming to end a seven-year vacancy without a Senate-confirmed head in the office. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 10:29 am
Here's Michelle Obama looming over some little boy as Barack Obama signs the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 9:52 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] on Wednesday signed into law [press release] a bill to repeal the military's controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (DADT) [10 USC § 654; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 7:33 am
. - President Barack Obama, May 21, 2009 December 21, 2010 ProPublica report on the proposed Obama Administration executive order on indefinite detention: [T]he [proposed] order establishes indefinite detention as a long-term Obama administration policy and makes clear that the White House alone will manage a review process for those it chooses to hold without charge or trial. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 5:49 pm
Congress, with the vote of President Barack Obama — who was a U.S. senator from Illinois at the time — subsequently authorized such warrantless spying in the summer of 2008. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 2:41 pm
California will still have 53 seats, and Texas will climb to 36.What is interesting is that the states where seats were gained all went against Barack Obama in 2008. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 2:07 pm
Politico reports that "President Barack Obama told Congressional Hispanic Caucus members Tuesday that he’ll renew his push for comprehensive immigration reform in 2011 — even though such an effort would face even longer odds in a Congress where Republicans control... [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 1:54 pm
Back then, for the most part, we all believed that Barack Obama was two things: smart, and a man of the people more than a man of Wall Street. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 8:06 am
(image credit) Medvedev's announcement follows the New Delhi statement earlier this month, when President Nicolas Sarkozy said France too now supports adding India as a "P-6" -- not to mention President Barack Obama's announcement in November, as we then posted, that "a reformed U.N. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 7:50 am
A recent National Journal article restated Barack Obama's view of Ronald Reagan as his model of a transformative President: In the past, Obama has expressed a wary admiration for President Reagan and his ability to change the narrative. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 5:44 am
Earlier this year, President Barack Obama turned down a request to end the benefit for Bangladesh. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 5:30 am
Down the Stretch: The Associated Press reports that there's a Senate deal on President Barack Obama's judicial nominees, allowing some to pass through before the end of the year but not others, including 9th Circuit nominee Goodwin Liu. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 8:16 pm
Soon after becoming President in 2009, Barack Obama came under intense pressure to improve regulation of food safety in the wake of a deadly Salmonella outbreak that contaminated peanut butter and melamine contamination of food imports from China. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 3:54 pm
David Espo reports for AP:After a monthslong blockade, Senate Republicans have agreed to let at least 19 of President Barack Obama's non-controversial judicial nominees win confirmation in the waning days of the congressional session in exchange for a commitment by Democrats not to seek votes on four others, according to officials familiar with the deal.Among the four is Goodwin Liu, a law school dean seen as a potential future Supreme Court pick, whose current nomination to… [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 2:19 pm
AP reports: "WASHINGTON -- After a monthslong blockade, Senate Republicans have agreed to let at least 19 of President Barack Obama's non-controversial judicial nominees win confirmation in the waning days of the congressional session in exchange for a commitment by Democrats not to seek votes on four others, according to officials familiar with the deal. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 1:47 pm
DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — After a monthslong blockade, Senate Republicans have agreed to let at least 19 of President Barack Obama’s non-controversial judicial nominees win confirmation in the waning days of the congressional session in exchange for a commitment by Democrats not to seek votes on four others, according to officials familiar with [...] [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 9:09 am
Though President Barack Obama lags behind his predecessor, George W. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 7:38 am
President Barack Obama will soon presumably put his signature to the bill ending the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on gays in the military. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 6:20 am
[Carter Wood/ShopFloor, more] Tags: Barack Obama, environment, Eric Holder Related posts September 2 roundup (2) RFK, Jr. to Interior? [read post]
