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27 Jun 2023, 7:26 am by Tom Smith
Bush, Bill Clinton and – through his white mother’s side – Barack Obama. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 4:57 am by Austin Sarat
It showed him to be a judge without good judgment and a populist out of touch with the lives that most Americans live.This is not the first moment in Alito’s grievance-conservative oeuvre, however.In 2010, he caused a considerable stir during President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address when he mouthed “Not true” in response to Obama’s assertion that the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United “reversed a… [read post]
15 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
After President Barack Obama was elected, and for some years thereafter, there was a lot of chatter about prosecuting former President George W. [read post]
15 Jun 2023, 2:00 am by Paul Caron
Lee Fang, Obama’s Personal Investment Deals Mirror Tax Strategies He Once Criticized: Barack Obama campaigned extensively during his presidency to eliminate the "carried interest loophole," a tax strategy that allows billionaire investors to evade ordinary income taxes. [read post]
10 Jun 2023, 2:52 pm by Ilya Somin
Biden, too, retained classified documents after leaving office (as vice president under Barack Obama). [read post]
9 Jun 2023, 8:57 am
He did support Barack Obama in 2008, but he turned on him fairly quickly, making criticisms that went way beyond Obama’s political decisions. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 7:08 am by Dan Bressler
‘Maintaining public trust in the judiciary is paramount, perhaps now more than ever in the history of our Republic.'” “Walker, who was appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama, has presided over several contentious legal fights in the past several years that have involved DeSantis, former Gov. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 6:30 am
Here's the post that caused me to create the tag, from August 2008: "Barack Obama on the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. [read post]
2 Jun 2023, 12:16 pm by Daniel M. Kowalski
” The DACA program began in 2012 through executive action by then-President Barack Obama to serve as a temporary measure for providing work authorization and deportation deferral to children of undocumented immigrants. [read post]
2 Jun 2023, 5:16 am by Jason Healey
While President Bush’s National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (2003) framed the issue similarly to PDD 63, President Barack Obama’s Cybersecurity Review (2009) places blame for poor security on the “broad reach of a loose and lightly regulated digital infrastructure. [read post]
1 Jun 2023, 6:55 am by Dan Bressler
” “Walker, who was nominated to the federal bench in 2012 by President Barack Obama and is now chief judge of the district, tossed out that lawsuit on the grounds that the professors didn’t have standing to challenge the law championed by DeSantis and Florida lawmakers. [read post]
31 May 2023, 9:47 am by Zach Brown
President Donald Trump’s team didn’t even propose a rule – hardly a surprise. [read post]
27 May 2023, 10:44 am by Michael C. Dorf
"That column then added that "[i]f Republicans say, 'We won't pass a debt ceiling increase unless you do X,' Obama can say, 'No, I won't sign a debt ceiling increase unless you do Y.' An emboldened Obama might be just the guy to kill the strange idea that debt ceilings are politically useful vehicles to extract concessions from the President. [read post]
25 May 2023, 5:45 am
There was also this quote from Maureen Dowd: Of the many exciting things about Barack Obama’s election, one was the anticipation of a bracing dose of normality in the White House.That was back when the abnormality was George W. [read post]
23 May 2023, 9:02 pm by Guest Opinion
 The antigovernment movement is an extremist response to the federal “Food Safety and Modernization Act,” signed into national law by President Barack Obama on Jan. 4, 2011. [read post]
22 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
When a radicalized political faction throws out all convention, then only unconventional responses remain, whether Biden and his advisors like it or not.After his first fatefully unwise decision to negotiate with Republicans over the debt ceiling in 2011, President Barack Obama realized that the smart response to subsequent attempts at hostage-taking was to refuse to engage with his radically irresponsible opponents. [read post]
22 May 2023, 4:30 am by jonathanturley
It is reminiscent of when Democrats applauded wildly when President Barack Obama told them that he was going to circumvent Congress entirely after it refused to approve his immigration and environmental legislation. [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
Making such an announcement when the debt ceiling was not even on anybody’s radar screen would have been politically disruptive, potentially throwing off other priorities with what might have seemed like an unnecessary provocation.But because of what we observed during all of the debt ceiling battles during Barack Obama’s presidency, we were convinced that waiting to act would inevitably put the country back in exactly the position in which it now finds itself.… [read post]
21 May 2023, 3:05 am by SHG
President Obama commuted his sentence. [read post]