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14 May 2009, 10:14 am
Thank you, Barack Obama P.S. [read post]
14 May 2009, 3:02 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] is considering six possible nominees for the US Supreme Court [official website] to replace retiring Justice David Souter [JURIST report], including five women, the Associated Press reported [AP report] Thursday. [read post]
13 May 2009, 12:00 pm
No surprise there with Barack Obama in the White House. [read post]
13 May 2009, 6:51 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] has decided to seek a delay of the release of photographs depicting the allegedly abusive treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, reversing an earlier decision, White House officials said Wednesday. [read post]
11 May 2009, 8:19 pm
" The tax "garrotte" includes items related to the estate tax, and also revived a bid to cap itemized deductions wealthy individuals can claim.Purportedly the fund raised from the estate tax and other changes would go to beef up a healthcare reserve fund, a $634 billion pot of money President Barack Obama wants to use to revamp the healthcare system and expand insurance to tens of millions of Americans who lack it.The White… [read post]
11 May 2009, 2:41 pm
Souter, Vice President Biden finds himself regularly consulting with the president and fielding queries from the White House counsel and others for insights on the process. [read post]
11 May 2009, 6:44 am
The Establishment, at least when Republicans control the White House, have long pretended it was otherwise. [read post]
11 May 2009, 3:48 am
At the White House correspondents' dinner this past weekend, Obama noted that he's ready for his term to continue: "I believe my next hundred days will be so successful that I will be able to complete them in 72 days," he said. [read post]
10 May 2009, 12:47 pm
President Barack Obama's main tax proposal -- to cap deductions for the wealthy -- has been all but dismissed by key members of Congress, but officials Friday said they are sticking with it.The matter was made more challenging after further analysis, when officials realized that their proposals did not actually raise $634 billion.The spending cuts, originally estimated at saving $316 billion, would actually save only $309 billion, a White House… [read post]
8 May 2009, 2:34 pm
According to this AP story, the White House says President Barack Obama’s announcement of a Supreme Court nominee is not imminent. [read post]
8 May 2009, 5:29 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] on Thursday proposed $17 billion in cuts to the fiscal year 2010 federal budget, including cutting $400 million [proposals, PDF] from the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) [program website]. [read post]
5 May 2009, 1:11 am
Obama Calling Senators for Input on Souter's Seat
The National Law Journal
President Barack Obama has not interviewed any candidates yet, but he has begun calling senators to get their input on replacing Supreme Court Justice David Souter, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday. [read post]
4 May 2009, 4:38 pm
From today's headlines: President Barack Obama vowed on Monday to overhaul tax policies that he said reward companies for shifting U.S. jobs overseas and allow wealthy people to evade taxes using offshore accounts. [read post]
3 May 2009, 10:04 pm
President Barack Obama will visit Mexico this week to show support for President Felipe Calderón, who is using Mexico's military to crack down on the drug cartels behind an epidemic of violence in northern Mexico. [read post]
1 May 2009, 11:57 am
As of May 1, the White House had not yet announced the president's choice. [read post]
1 May 2009, 1:18 am
That's one reason why so many of us have been following the coverage all week of the 100th day of Barack Obama's presidency.As we are marking those first 100 days of the Obamas historic move to the White House, everyone is dissecting what the president has and has not accomplished, trying to divine what this cosmic snippet of time will mean for the rest of his days in Washington and whether he's started down the road of… [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 11:04 pm
I know that Eric Holder and Greg Craig, my White House counsel, and others are working on that as we speak. [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 11:47 am
As President Barack Obama marks his 100th day in office today, we’ve set out to grade the 44th president’s performance on the bread-and-butter issues near and dear to Wired.com: copyright, cyber security, science, net neutrality, transparency and privacy. [read post]
28 Apr 2009, 9:42 am
Check out what the PCAST team in the Bush White House developed here. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 10:10 pm
President Barack Obama "elaborated" Tuesday on his position regarding possible criminal investigations arising from recently-released Bush administration "torture memos:"OBAMA: The OLC memos that were released reflected in my view us losing our moral bearings. ... [read post]
