Yesterday, Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest law firm with offices in Kansas City, Missouri and Leesburg, Virginia, said it will sue the President, Attorney General Eric Holder and other relevant cabinet members if they try to use the “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact H.R. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Speaking at the University of Alabama Law School Tuesday, U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts touched on several noteworthy topics, including the tradition of justices of the High Court attending the president’s annual State of the Union address. He called President Obama’s first such address, in which the president criticized the Supreme Court for its ruling on [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 11, 2010
Joseph Greenaway has become the 15th Obama judicial nominee to win Senate confirmation. His nomination was cleared by the Senate judiciary committee in October, after being nominated last June, but Republican resistance to Obama’s nominees has stalled final confirmation. There have been no objections to Greenaway from either side of the aisle on competence or ideology [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 5, 2010
President Obama announced two nominations for U.S. attorney yesterday. Bismarck, North Dakota attorney Tim Purdon has been nominated as North Dakota’s next U.S. attorney. Purdon is a native of Oakes, North Dakota. He spent his formative years in Minnesota and attended Hamline Law School in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is an attorney in the Bismarck [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 28, 2010
She’s baaaaack! Everyone’s favorite birther, lawyer and dentist Orly Taitz, has filed pro se in a federal court in Washington DC. In the suit, Dr. Orly Taitz v. Barack Hussein Obama, Taitz reiterates her claim that President Obama is not a US citizen and demands production of his birth certificate. She alleges [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 28, 2010
Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, January 28, and here’s a look back at yesterday’s headlines… President Obama took on the Supreme Court in last night’s State of the Union… James O’Keefe’s lawyer says his client was not trying to bug Senator Landrieu’s phones… Reed Smith picked up two corporate partners in New York… Four partners jumped from [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Part way through tonight’s State of the Union address, President Obama took the extraordinary step of first upbraiding the Supreme Court for its Citizens United decision, and then urging Congress to pass legislation to fix it. Although he did not cite the case by name, there was no doubt as to his intent when [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tonight may well be the most important speech of President Obama’s political life. His signature issue, health care reform, is on the ropes. His unfavorable ratings are rising and the Democrats have suffered some embarrassing losses in special elections, capped with the loss of the Senate seat held for a generation by Edward [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 8, 2010
In what will come as a relief to what has to be one of the strangest groups ever to lobby the President of the United States, the White House announced today that the State of the Union address will not take place on February 2nd, the night the final seasons premier of the TV show [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Under a new defense spending bill signed by President Obama, military contractors will no longer be able to require employees to settle a broad range of disputes with the company via arbitration. The issue gained national attention after Jamie Leigh Jones, an employee of KBR, claimed to have been raped by coworkers in Iraq. [...]
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