Barack Obama
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Barack Obama, Basketball, Election 2012, Gay Marriage, Gloria Allred, Marijuana, Morning Docket, Murder, Politics, Pregnancy / Paternity
Morning Docket: 09.15.11
* “If you love me you’ll pass this bill.” Sorry, Obama, but even the Democrats are busy washing their hair on this one. How about we pass a resolution like this instead? I’d totally love Obama for that. [New York Times] * What’s with town clerks in New York and gay marriage licenses? If you […]
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Barack Obama, Election 2012, Gender, Law Professors, Law Schools, Politics
Female Law Professors Continue Their Assault On The World
Unbeknownst to most of us, when Ted Kennedy died Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren became the last liberal with balls. While other Democrats have been desperately trying to keep themselves in the good graces of Wall Street, Elizabeth Warren has been standing toe-to-toe with the bankers. It therefore seems only appropriate that Warren is now running for Ted Kennedy's old Senate Seat.... - Sponsored
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4th Circuit, Barack Obama, Biglaw, Drinking, Election 2012, Federal Judges, Football, Job Searches, Money, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.09.11
* What did you think of the way Obama was pimping out his reelection jobs bill last night? People were probably more excited about the football game that followed. [Los Angeles Times] * Congratulations to Stephanie D. Thacker of West Virginia. She was nominated to fill a seat on the Fourth Circuit. If she doesn’t […]
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Barack Obama, Crime, Deaths, Email Scandals, John McCain, Law Schools, Lunacy, Murder, Police, Politics, Prisons, Ridiculousness, Violence
The Collected Writings of Stephen McDaniel
In prior coverage of Stephen McDaniel, the Mercer Law School graduate accused of murdering his former neighbor and classmate, Lauren Giddings, we alluded to several emails that McDaniel sent to some of his classmates. Some students found the emails, which reflected McDaniel's conservative political views, to be strange or disturbing. We will now share them with you.... -
Barack Obama, Education / Schools, Money, Politics, Student Loans
Debt Ceiling Deal Includes Last-Second Screwing Of Graduate Students
There was one cut in the debt ceiling deal that really illustrates how little the president cares for his young, college-educated constituents. To save about $26.3 billion dollars, the debt ceiling deal eliminates the graduate student loan subsidy. Education certainly seems like a surefire way to kill one's economic future.... -
Barack Obama, Death Penalty, Intellectual Property, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Murder, Politics, Trademarks
Morning Docket: 08.01.11
* This whole debt crisis has been a little like Deal or No Deal, except that show had a much better host. Howie Mandel can get people to make a deal with the banker in under 60 minutes. Obama? Not so much. [POLITICO] * Real life intellectual property matters be damned, because even virtual horses […]
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Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Constitutional Law, Election 2012, Laurence Tribe, Money, Politics
To Be Young, An Executive, And Above the Law: Thoughts on the Debt Ceiling Impasse
The impasse over the debt ceiling continues. Could an obscure provision of the Fourteenth Amendment ride to the rescue of President Obama? Legal scholars discuss. -
Barack Obama, Biglaw, Election 2012, Money, Politics, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: The Bloom Is Off Obama?
I think he’s done a terrible job with Organizing for America and for his base, and with the recognition of the people who worked for him. I frankly think the staff, the reelection staff, are incompetent fools. — Willard Taylor, former partner (and current of counsel) at Sullivan & Cromwell, commenting to Politico on the […] - Sponsored
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Arent Fox, Barack Obama, Biglaw, Election 2012, Patton Boggs, Politics
Candidates For President And The Law Firms That Love Them
It doesn't matter which party you are from, or what your political platform is. It doesn't matter if you believe Obamacare is exactly like your own health care plan, or if you think marriage is a sacred vow shared by a man, a woman, and millions of viewers on The Bachelor. But what does matter is whether you have competent legal counsel. -
Barack Obama, Biglaw, Fabulosity, Federal Government, Military / Military Law, Partner Issues, Politics
An Afternoon With Jeh Johnson, General Counsel of the Defense Department
Jeh C. Johnson, General Counsel of the Department of Defense, can be described as one of the most powerful and influential lawyers in the entire federal government. Our very own David Lat had the pleasure of interviewing him. -
Barack Obama, Department of Justice, Fabulosity, Fashion, Hotties, Litigatrix, Musical Chairs, Shoes, White House Counsel
Musical Chairs: Bob Bauer Out and Kathy Ruemmler In as White House Counsel
Big news out of Washington today: Bob Bauer is stepping down as White House counsel. He’s returning to his former firm, Perkins Coie, where he will represent Barack Obama as his personal lawyer and serve as general counsel to President Obama’s re-election campaign. Bauer is being replaced by his top deputy, leading litigatrix Kathryn Ruemmler. […] -
Barack Obama, Politics
Obama Releases Long Form Birth Certificate
I hope you are happy, Birthers. In an amazing concession to the lunatic fringe in America, President Barack Obama has released his “long form” birth certificate from Hawaii. Actually, check that, using the word “released” adopts the narrative of the crazies. It’s more accurate to say that the President of the United States successfully begged […] -
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Religion
Quote of the Day: The Maltese Falcon Flies Away
In the weeks since the [Inspector General]’s flawed and narrow vision of our diplomatic mission, people of good will in the middle ranks of our Department have seen it as their calling to strictly enforce it. As a consequence, my voice has been prevented from speaking; my pen has been enjoined from writing; and my […]
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4th Circuit, 5th Circuit, Animal Law, Barack Obama, Bernie Madoff, Crime, Free Speech, Insider Trading, Jeffrey Skilling, Morning Docket, Pets, Politics, Trials, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 04.07.11
* Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s appeal was denied by the Fifth Circuit. While he remains the smartest guy in the room, the room consists of him and a half-wit cellmate whose only discernible talent is making Prune-o. [WSJ Law Blog] * Bruce Fein, an attorney who worked on Clinton’s impeachment and called for Bush’s […]
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Barack Obama, Cass Sunstein, Fabulosity, Hotties, Law Professors, Quote of the Day, Samantha Power
Quote of the Day: She'll Be Played By Julianne Moore in 'Libya: The Movie'
[There wasn’t] some dramatic meeting in the Oval Office where everybody tried to persuade the president not to do this, and Samantha rolled in with her flowing red hair and said, ‘Mr. President, I stand here alone in telling you that history calls upon you to perform this act.’ That’s not how it happened. — […] -
9th Circuit, ACLU, Barack Obama, Gay, Gay Marriage, Politics, Ted Frank
Obama Directs DOJ to Stop Defending DOMA
President Obama has directed the Department of Justice to stop defending Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the 1996 law prohibiting federal recognition of same-sex marriage. Attorney General Eric Holder’s letter explaining the decision to Speaker of the House John Boehner appears here. In other marriage-equality-related news, the American Foundation for Equal […] -
Barack Obama, Money, Politics, Student Loans
Obama Just Doesn't Understand How to Help Public Interest Lawyers
If President Obama thinks education is so important, then why is he hell bent on financially crippling those who seek education? Seriously, why can’t he understand that making education affordable for everybody is not achieved simply by giving everybody the opportunity to take out loans that they cannot pay back? I’ve mentioned before that Obama […] -
Barack Obama, Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The State of the Union: Open Thread
President Barack Obama just finished delivering his State of the Union address for 2011. Alas, it wasn’t as exciting as last year, which featured a confrontation between the president and the Supreme Court. This time around, six justices attended — Chief Justice Roberts, joined by Justices Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan — but they […] -
Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Barack Obama, Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, John Roberts, Politics, Reader Polls, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
Will SCOTUS Go to the SOTU This Year?
Tomorrow night, many of us will tune in to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address — hoping to catch more catfighting than on an episode of Jersey Shore. Last year’s SOTU did not disappoint drama-seekers. As you may recall, an Article II vs. Article III smackdown took place: President Obama chided the Supreme […] -
Barack Obama, Constitutional Law, Federal Judges, Health Care / Medicine, Politics
Breaking: Health Care Law Ruled Unconstitutional (In Part)
Virginia 1, Obamacare 0. Ian Gershengorn must be pacing up a storm. Judge Henry E. Hudson (E.D. Va.) just struck down a key provision of President Barack Obama’s signature health care reform law — namely, the requirement that most Americans obtain health insurance. Judge Hudson held that the insurance mandate exceeds Congress’s authority under the […]