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23 Apr 2024, 11:53 am by Steven Calabresi
When President Barack Obama ordered the killing of a known terrorist by a Predator Drone Strike, which accidently led to the death of a U.S. citizen who was physically near that terrorist, President Obama could not be prosecuted for that act because the death of the American citizen was an unintended consequence of President Obama's legitimate exercise of his executive power as Commander in Chief. [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 10:09 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  No matter what anyone said, McConnell would serenely repeat again and again that "the people" should decide who would nominate a Supreme Court justice, even though the people had done so when they put Barack Obama back in office for a second four-year term.But again, is it not true that Democrats lie? [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 6:31 am by Amy Howe
And although Trump suggests that modern presidents like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama could be criminally prosecuted for launching military or drone strikes overseas, he does not point to any criminal statutes that those presidents or others might have violated. [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 12:22 pm by Eric Fruits
President Barack Obama fully pulled off the mask in 2014, when he announced “[w]e are not just going to be waiting for legislation,” declaring “I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone. [read post]
13 Apr 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press
Needs National Net Neutrality Policy Net neutrality — a long-debated policy that was solidified under President Barack Obama — required Internet service providers to treat all communications on their networks the same regardless of content. [read post]
13 Apr 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press
Needs National Net Neutrality Policy Net neutrality — a long-debated policy that was solidified under President Barack Obama — required Internet service providers to treat all communications on their networks the same regardless of content. [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
But as he gets it fully up and running, each step is bringing with it ethical issues that would only grow if his father-in-law, Donald Trump, should win another term as president. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
This happened in 2008 and again in 2020; the Republican candidate (John McCain and Donald Trump, respectively) won the statewide vote handily, but the Democratic nominee (Barack Obama and Joe Biden, respectively) picked up one of the five electors, for having won one of the three congressional districts.This is not the first time Republicans have tried to revise Nebraska’s method of elector allocation to enhance the prospects for the Republican party. [read post]
10 Apr 2024, 9:45 pm by Ilya Somin
Most notably, then-president Barack Obama endorsed the idea back in 2015. [read post]
9 Apr 2024, 12:06 am by Josh Richman
First known for coining the term “net neutrality” in 2002, he served in President Joe Biden’s White House as special assistant to the President for technology and competition policy from 2021 to 2023; he also had worked on competition policy for the National Economic Council during the last year of President Barack Obama’s administration. [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 11:21 am
Unlike previous administrations that have mainly put prosecutors and Big Law attorneys on the bench, Biden has nominated individuals with civil rights advocacy and public defense backgrounds. ...Biden broke President Barack Obama’s record for appointing the highest number of circuit judges with public defense backgrounds to the bench. [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 10:14 am
Barack Obama, in this alternative America, is doomed to be a one-term president because, by 2012, 'the whole notion that one might want to look up to anyone in a position of authority had become preposterous' Instead, the 'impressively unimpressive' Joe Biden steps in, after which, in 2015, the Democratic Party seizes on Donald Trump as their 'shoo-in' candidate for, among myriad other reasons, the fact that 'he never reads.'.... [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 2:12 am by Tom Joscelyn
One of them allegedly engaged in other disturbing behavior, including stalking then House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and former President Barack Obama. [read post]
30 Mar 2024, 1:43 am by Steve Lubet
On April 9, 2013, President Obama hosted a "Memphis Soul" concert at the White House. [read post]
28 Mar 2024, 11:02 am by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON — As the election approaches, President Joe Biden is making regular calls to former President Barack Obama to catch up on the race or to talk about family. [read post]
26 Mar 2024, 11:04 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  And when Mitch McConnell hatched the cynical idea of simply refusing to hold a vote on Barack Obama's nominee to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, people were stunned to learn that the Constitution's "advise and consent" clause was so general that it could be ignored.The Twenty-Second Amendment is similarly poorly drafted. [read post]
21 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
”Of course, Trump’s false claims about election integrity in 2024 are just the latest chapter in a long-running story.As ABC News reports, those claims go back at least to 2012 when he called President Barack Obama’s reelection “a total sham and a travesty” and announced that the result showed that “We are not a democracy! [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Stymied by rejectionists in Congress, President Barack Obama unilaterally adopted the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for the Dreamers; President Donald Trump could not get the funding he wanted to build a wall at the southern border without paying a political price he deemed too high, so he diverted funds appropriated for other purposes; President Joe Biden has tried several ways to engineer student debt forgiveness without the… [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 5:00 am by centerforartlaw
David D’Arcy, Antiquities trafficking investigator appointed president of Harvard Law Review—a position once held by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Barack Obama, The Art Newspaper (April 3, 2023), available at HERE. [read post]