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6 Feb 2009, 10:47 am
There's been plenty of debate on the merits (or lack thereof) of President Barack Obama's plan to cap the compensation of executives at companies that take money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. [read post]
18 Nov 2008, 9:47 am
[JURIST] Officials from the administration of US president-elect Barack Obama [transition website] will likely not prosecute Americans who approved or actually carried out the torture or other harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, according to an AP report [text] published Monday. [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 12:05 am
President-elect Barack Obama has named tech executives from Google.org and InterActiveCorp to his transition team, according to reports. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 11:10 am
If elected president, Barack Obama plans to prioritize, well, barring broadband providers like AT&T and Comcast from prioritizing Internet content. [read post]
4 Apr 2009, 4:15 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] may lift travel and money transfer restrictions with Cuba [State Department backgrounder; JURIST news archive], according to statements by administration officials Saturday. [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 7:50 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama on Friday signed [press release] a bill [text, PDF] that will allow Americans to claim contributions made to Haitian earthquake [JURIST news archive] relief efforts as a deduction on their 2009 federal income tax returns. [read post]
18 Mar 2009, 1:12 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] on Tuesday nominated [press release] Judge David Hamilton [official profile] to serve on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit [official website], thereby moving to fill the first of 15 federal appellate vacancies [DOJ materials]. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 11:21 pm
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] urged sweeping reform of the American financial regulatory system in a speech [text] on his economic revitalization plan to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 3:30 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] on Wednesday issued the first executive orders of his presidency, focusing on White House ethics and transparency. [read post]
1 Dec 2008, 3:59 am
[JURIST] US President-elect Barack Obama officially announced [transition materials and transcript] on Monday that he is nominating former Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] official Eric Holder [professional profile; JURIST report] as the next US attorney general. [read post]
11 Apr 2009, 6:46 am
[JURIST] The administration of US President Barack Obama [official profile] will appeal a ruling made last week by Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] that allowed detainees being held by the US in Afghanistan to proceed with habeas corpus challenges [JURIST report] to their detention. [read post]
24 Jan 2009, 1:33 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] issued a memorandum [text; White House statement] Friday repealing a ban on federal funding for international family planning programs that provide or give out information and counseling about abortion [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 3:26 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] issued an executive order [text, PDF] Thursday directing that the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] military prison be closed "as soon as practicable, and no later than 1 year from the date of this order. [read post]
24 Nov 2008, 6:30 am
President elect Barack Obama has set out a clear plan to bring equal rights for LGBTI people in the US. [read post]
30 May 2009, 8:51 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] rebuked [text; video] Republicans who would oppose his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor [WH profile] for the US Supreme Court [official website] Saturday in his weekly address. [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]
28 Oct 2009, 11:44 pm
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law a defense appropriations bill that contains a measure extending the definition of federal hate crimes to include crimes motivated by gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. [read post]
27 Nov 2009, 8:10 am
Genetic Engineering and Bioengineering News reports:President Barack Obama has created a new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and appointed Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, to serve as chair and James W. [read post]
10 Mar 2009, 10:05 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] issued a memorandum [text] Monday that proposes to limit the use of attaching presidential signing statements [1993 DOJ backgrounder] which raise constitutional or other legal questions before bills are signed into law. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 7:51 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] proposed a broad series of financial regulatory reforms [white paper, PDF; statement] Wednesday intended to reestablish stability and confidence in the US financial system. [read post]
