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13 Jun 2022, 2:04 pm by Ilya Somin
That risk makes Trump's Big Lie more dangerous than a deception that "merely" facilitates the enactment of a specific dubious policy, such as the lies that Barack Obama used to help push through the Affordable Care Act. [read post]
18 May 2022, 5:53 am by Crispin Smith
How the Counter-ISIS Campaign in Iraq Began In 2011, President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq, fulfilling his campaign promise to end the Iraq War that began under the Bush administration in 2003. [read post]
16 May 2022, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
And then there was the mob that came for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence on January 6, 2021. [read post]
29 Apr 2022, 8:50 am by Tess Bridgeman
A month later, President Barack Obama announced his intention to launch a full-scale counter-IS campaign in both Iraq and Syria. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 4:52 am by Emma Snell
The president will deliver remarks on support for Ukrainians defending their country and their freedom against Russia’s brutal war,” according to a White House spokesperson. [read post]
23 Apr 2022, 7:50 am
Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, who quietly removed the president’s name from news releases about federally funded infrastructure projects. 'What you’re seeing is people feeling like it’s time to head for the lifeboats rather than trying to steer the ship,' said Robert Gibbs, a former White House press secretary who worked under Barack Obama.... [read post]
19 Apr 2022, 4:51 am by Emma Snell
RESPONSE  President Biden will today convene a meeting of allies to discuss the Ukraine conflict, the White House has said. [read post]
Indeed, Tim Wu—the progenitor of the term “net neutrality” and now an official in the Biden White House—has explicitly endorsed the use of threats by regulatory agencies in order to obtain policy outcomes:  The use of threats instead of law can be a useful choice—not simply a procedural end run. [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In late 2006, when then-Senator Barack Obama first talked about running for President, there was a fair amount of tut-tutting about how a freshman senator should not be so arrogant as to run for President and should not be encouraged to do so.One can argue about whether that is a sensible objection, but I was taken aback when one of those “it’s too soon” columns made the claim that Obama should spend time in the Senate trying to solve… [read post]
3 Feb 2022, 7:58 pm by Ediberto Roman
President Joe Biden is playing the long game with his federal judicial appointments. [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 7:30 am by Amy Howe
In 2016, President Barack Obama commuted Brown’s sentence, leading to his release at age 78 after over 25 years in prison. [read post]
26 Jan 2022, 11:51 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
President Barack Obama reads from his book, “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters,” during a visit by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and his family to the Oval Office, March 2, 2011. [read post]
26 Jan 2022, 9:46 am by Amy Howe
Noel Canning, in which the justices unanimously agreed that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he appointed three commissioners to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was in a brief recess. [read post]
18 Jan 2022, 9:03 pm by Elizabeth Penava
The party in the White House will favor deference to its own administration, while the opposing party will attack it. [read post]
11 Jan 2022, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Bush became president (or was reelected relatively legitimately), conservatives promised to decamp if Barack Obama won, and so. [read post]
1 Jan 2022, 8:43 am by Chris Castle
HuffPo reports on the exchange: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was left disappointed when Chinese President Xi Jinping refused his request to name his unborn child at a White House dinner last week.With Facebook still banned in China, the President remained unyielding to Zuckerberg as he turned down his request for a Chinese name for his child, the shanghaiist.com reported.Zuckerberg was seated at the head table with United States President… [read post]
US President Barack Obama was the first US President to proclaim a National Stalking Awareness Month in January 2011. [read post]
31 Dec 2021, 4:12 pm by James Romoser
In 2009, when President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the court, she called her mother an “extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. [read post]
12 Dec 2021, 9:05 pm by Rena Steinzor
The White House attacks affected the usual suspects, with the U.S. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 9:05 am by David Priess
Reporters working the national security beat during Donald Trump’s single term in the White House wrote more frequently than during most administrations about the current president’s interactions with his Intelligence Community (IC). [read post]