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28 Feb 2020, 12:59 pm by Matthew D. Lee
He was reappointed by President Barack Obama and sworn in on November 25, 2011, for a second term ending November 24, 2026. [read post]
28 Feb 2020, 5:30 am by Jordan Rothman
* Representatives of Barack Obama have sent a cease and desist letter to a Republican Super PAC for using snippets from Obama's audio books. [read post]
27 Feb 2020, 4:24 am
" Here's the first paragraph:Former president Barack Obama on Wednesday called on South Carolina television stations to stop running an ad from a super PAC supporting President Trump that uses Obama’s words out of context in a misleading attack on former vice president Joe Biden.Ironically, the headline and that paragraph confused me more than the ad did. [read post]
26 Feb 2020, 2:01 pm by Vishnu Kannan
On Tuesday, CBS News and the South Carolina-based Congressional Black Caucus Institute co-hosted the tenth debate of the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, moderated by Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King. [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 11:29 am by Patricia Hughes
A recent opinion piece in the National Post by Leonid Sarota and Asher Honickman explained how the rule of law functions: it constrains government and when people perceive it to overstep, they can challenge it; but it also requires individuals to restrain their actions and use the legal sysem and when they are unsuccessful, they must accept it. [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 6:25 am by Deb Givens
That research, which President Barack Obama’s economic team championed in 2016, has become fodder for presidential candidates like Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont to call for breaking up big tech companies. [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 3:49 am by Scott Bomboy
In recent years, similar questions arose about pardons issued by Presidents Barack Obama and George W. [read post]
22 Feb 2020, 6:30 am by Jen Patja Howell
Lisa Monaco was Barack Obama's counterterrorism and Homeland Security advisor in the White House, and headed the Justice Department's national security division. [read post]
21 Feb 2020, 2:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  President Trump commuted Rod Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence for attempting to profit off of his authority as Governor to appoint someone to fill Barack Obama’s Illinois Senate seat after he was elected president in 2008. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
They inveighed endlessly against former President Barack Obama’s supposed constitutional fecklessness, saying that the President is “not a king. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 9:06 am by Andrew Hursh
Blagojevich was indicted by federal prosecutors in 2008 for his attempt to personally profit from his ability to fill Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat. [read post]
18 Feb 2020, 12:57 pm
The one they favor, the apotheosis of which bloomed magnificently during the two terms of the last internationalist American President, Barack Obama, the primus inter pares of a global Senate of similarly constructed leaders who oversaw the Empire constructed by the United States after 1945 and which had come ever so close to hard wiring a global weltanschauung, is what is defined as the civilization of the West worth preserving and lamenting. [read post]
18 Feb 2020, 3:40 am by Edith Roberts
” Veronica Stracqualursi reports at CNN that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last week “reiterated his position that the GOP-led Senate would confirm a nominee to any Supreme Court vacancy that occurred this election year, despite leaving a seat vacant in 2016 and preventing President Barack Obama’s nominee from consideration. [read post]
16 Feb 2020, 12:23 pm by Tom Smith
Yet Judge Amy Berman Jackson, a Barack Obama appointee, did not see any reason to bar jurors with apparent bias. [read post]
15 Feb 2020, 10:06 am by Sandy Levinson
 But one should acknowledge that Barack Obama's campaign in 2008, when I happily supported him over Hillary Clinton, also had a healthy supply of Caesarism, with its large Trump-like rallies and vacuous promises. [read post]
14 Feb 2020, 10:59 am by David Oscar Markus
Martin was appointed by President Barack Obama.3. [read post]
11 Feb 2020, 10:00 am by Alan Morrison
Indeed, President Donald Trump could have fired the CFPB director appointed by President Barack Obama for 10 months after taking office, but he chose not to do so. [read post]
10 Feb 2020, 2:19 pm
Those ideas were entertained and at times embraced by presidents who governed a century before Barack Obama was born. [read post]
6 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm by Jared Kadich
Dodaro, was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010 and his term is set to run until 2025. [read post]
6 Feb 2020, 11:11 am by Jeh Johnson
And, when he became President, Barack Obama did in fact tell his national security team that he strongly preferred military action that had been authorized by Congress. [read post]