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18 Sep 2020, 6:26 pm by Amy Howe
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 by Ilya Somin
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 by Administrator
Periodically on Thursdays, we present a significant excerpt, usually from a recently published book or journal article. [read post]
16 Sep 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  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 by Brandon Kirk Williams
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]
14 Sep 2020, 8:41 am by Nathaniel Sobel
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 by Sabrina I. Pacifici
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 by Tom Smith
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 by Tom Smith
The 2016 executive order was brought in by then-President Barack Obama, who was under pressure to be more transparent. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 4:03 am by Michael Boyd
In 2009, President Barack Obama issued an executive order prohibiting the use of waterboarding and several other enhanced interrogation techniques. [read post]
11 Sep 2020, 4:00 am by James Romoser
Coyle notes that a familiar face will be back before the justices defending the health care law: Donald Verilli, who successfully defended the law in 2012 as President Barack Obama’s solicitor general, will again try to salvage the law this November on behalf of the Democratic-led House of Representatives. [read post]
8 Sep 2020, 3:44 pm by David Kopel
 Active judges on the Ninth Circuit include 10 appointed by Donald Trump, 7 by Barack Obama, 3 by George W. [read post]
5 Sep 2020, 5:49 am
Democrats have long taken aim at Trump’s comments about race, including his false assertion that former president Barack Obama was not born in the United States. [read post]
5 Sep 2020, 4:21 am by Hon. Richard G. Kopf
During her 2010 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Elena Kagan, Barack Obama’s solicitor general and former Dean of the Harvard Law School, created a stir in legal circles by stating, “We are all originalists. [read post]
3 Sep 2020, 7:10 am by Jonathan Shaub
Bush and the other an appointee of Barack Obama). [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 3:19 pm by Yalitza Ledgister
  On March 18, 2014, President Barack Obama presented the award to nineteen minority Medal of Honor recipients who were passed over due to discrimination. [read post]