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9 Nov 2018, 3:15 pm
Under President Barack Obama, the department expanded the rights of LGBTQ individuals, responded aggressively to police abuse, directed federal prosecutors to use their charging discretion wisely to reduce mass incarceration, promoted voting rights, reduced reliance on private prisons and commuted lengthy sentences imposed on nonviolent drug offenders. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 10:02 am by Erin McCarthy Holliday
Then-president Barack Obama rejected the pipeline in 2015 on climate change grounds, but President Donald Trump gave the project a green light shortly after his inauguration in 2017 via a Presidential Permit. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 8:00 am by Adam Faderewski
The 11th was a young Hispanic soldier—a double-leg amputee—still recovering at Walter Reed Hospital, who was invited by Oprah to attend President Barack Obama’s inauguration with his black, double amputee, Army Walter Reed Hospital roommate. [read post]
8 Nov 2018, 11:07 am by Tom Smith
(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court in California ruled on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue a program begun under former President Barack Obama that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children. [read post]
8 Nov 2018, 8:34 am by Amy Howe
The group includes Merrick Garland, who was nominated in 2016 by President Barack Obama to fill the seat that Gorsuch now holds. [read post]
8 Nov 2018, 6:18 am by Howard Bashman
“Harry Reid’s Enduring Gift to Barack Obama”: Jeffrey Toobin recently had this post online at The New Yorker. [read post]
8 Nov 2018, 1:00 am by CAFE
David Axelrod, the chief strategist for both of Barack Obama's presidential campaigns, is the director of the University of Chicago's non-partisan Institute of Politics and the host of The Axe Files podcast. [read post]
7 Nov 2018, 12:05 pm
He rolled back some of President Barack Obama’s signature policies as he encouraged federal prosecutors to pursue the toughest possible charges and sentences against criminal suspects. [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 9:30 pm by James B. Jacobs
President Barack Obama promised to crack down on these Internet sales by making more private sellers obtain FFL licenses, the exact opposite of the Clinton Administration’s goal of reducing the number of FFLs. [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 8:11 pm by Daniel Byman
In the weeks before the election, a right-wing extremist mailed 14 package bombs to former President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders, CNN, and others he deemed enemies of President Trump and the American people. [read post]
5 Nov 2018, 9:05 pm by Coral Beach
A number of provisions in the Act had delayed activation dates, but the FDA gained the power to force food and feed recalls as soon as the legislation was signed into law by President Barack Obama. [read post]
5 Nov 2018, 7:30 am by Christine Corcos
From the introduction: The election of former President Barack Obama, the country’s first African-American president, temporarily changed the discourse around race in America. [read post]
5 Nov 2018, 7:30 am
From the introduction: The election of former President Barack Obama, the country’s first African-American president, temporarily changed the discourse around race in America. [read post]
2 Nov 2018, 1:41 pm by Ilya Somin
Just before assuming the presidency in 2009, Barack Obama declared that we need "a new declaration of independence not just in our nation but in our own lives, from ideology and small thinking. [read post]
1 Nov 2018, 9:30 pm by Anna Lee Whisenant
” For instance, when Barack Obama was running for U.S. [read post]
1 Nov 2018, 8:22 pm
(Pix Cuban international business conclave bucks Trump and slump)Recently there have been (what for Cuban reporting amounts to) a sustained interest in projections of Cuban sovereign economic power in international private markets. [read post]
26 Oct 2018, 1:36 pm by Erin McCarthy Holliday
56-year old Cesar Sayoc of Florida was arrested and charged Friday in connection with the investigation of suspicious packages sent nationwide to various democratic politicians and outspoken critics of President Donald Trump, including former President Barack Obama and Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. [read post]
26 Oct 2018, 12:00 pm by Matthew Kahn
The FBI has taken custody of Cesar Altieri Sayoc in connection with the attempted mailing of 13 pipe bombs to prominent former government officials, including former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and other public figures. [read post]
26 Oct 2018, 9:26 am by Herrman & Herrman, P.L.L.C.
As a black freshman senator, her candidacy almost reminds us of a young Barack Obama in 2007. [read post]