· Judith Corley, a political law partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office will now serve as President Barack Obama’s personal lawyer, reports the Blog of …
· In addition, prior to June 5, 2012, the Obamas would have been required to pay an annual fee of $289 (now $342 ), and take classes to satisfy the …
· As Bauer noted in his article, he was White House counsel when an alleged “long-form” birth certificate image, reportedly obtained in the form of two certified copies by Judith Corley, Obama’s personal lawyer and also of Perkins Coie, from the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH) on April 27, 2011.
· WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information ...
Michelle Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988, and was admitted as a lawyer by the Supreme Court of Illinois on May 12, 1989. Following graduation, she joined Sidley Austin, a corporate law firm in Chicago.
President Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 and was admitted as a lawyer by the Supreme Court of Illinois on Dec. 17, 1991. Prior to being elected to the Illinois state Senate in 1996, he worked as a civil rights lawyer at the firm formerly known as Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Four days after Obama announced that he would run for president in February 2007, he voluntarily elected to have his law license placed on “inactive” status, according to Grogan. Then, after becoming president, he elected to change his status to “retired” in February 2009.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Free Republic: In the State of the Union Address, President Obama said: “We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal.
From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996.
He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application.
Obama’s motion seeking a transfer to inactive status was filed on June 8, 1994. And the court granted the request the following month, Grogan said.
Former White House Counsel Robert Bauer cited political influence over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys during the Bush administration. But is the Obama regime carrying out politically-motivated acts against citizens of the United States?
Arpaio agreed, delegating the task to his “Cold Case Posse,” a volunteer arm of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) consisting of former law-enforcement officers, attorneys and other professionals.
In addition to questions about his birthplace, Obama has claimed a father who was never a U.S. citizen. On his 2008 campaign website, “ FighttheSmears ,” Obama claimed that he “became a citizen at birth under the first section of the 14th Amendment ” in response to the “lie” that he was not a “natural born Citizen.”
Bauer claimed that Matthews “in no way” ever questioned whether or not Obama’s birth occurred within the United States. However, in a December 18, 2007 discussion about remarks made by former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey about the upcoming presidential election, Matthews asked rhetorically if Democrat primary contender Hillary Clinton might make an issue of Obama’s “birth in Indonesia” and “Islamic background.” It was not until later that Matthews took the position that anyone questioning Obama’s claimed birth in Hawaii was doing so with nefarious purpose.
During a press conference following the release of the image, Obama stated that the White House had “provided additional information today about the site of my birth.” He did not hold a document in his hand, nor was one displayed in the background or held by anyone else as he spoke.
Somehow it was thought foolish to ignore the lies and the message they conveyed. No responsible observer or member of the press doubted the official birth certificate, and there were other pieces of corroborating evidence, such as the birth notice that had appeared in the Hawaiian press. This was, perversely, deemed insufficient. President Obama supposedly needed to do more to quiet the birthers and their most vocal national spokesperson, Donald Trump.
As far as I’m concerned, he’s a key person in the entire cover-up. I just sent you the excerpt from the Q&A session where the reporter makes the observation that what was handed out was a photocopy of a piece of paper. There was no evidence that Dan Pfieffer, Bob Bauer, or Barack Obama ever displayed the actual document received by Judith Corley, if in fact there was one. It’s cover for a story that they concocted to show the American people a phony document.
Obama admin spent $36M on lawsuits to keep info secret. WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal records under the Freedom of Information Act, according to an Associated Press analysis of new U.S.
It received a record 788,769 requests for files last year and spent a record $478 million answering them and employed 4,263 full-time FOIA employees across more than 100 federal departments and agencies. That was higher by 142 such employees the previous year.
The AP on Monday settled its 2015 lawsuit against the State Department for files about Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state, at AP’s request, and received $150,546 from the department to cover part of its legal fees.
A spokesman for former President Obama did not immediately respond to an email request for comment late Monday. The White House under Obama routinely defended its efforts under the information law in recent years and said federal employees worked diligently on such requests for records.
The AP has pending lawsuits against the FBI for records about its decision to impersonate an AP journalist during a criminal investigation and about who helped the FBI hack into a mass shooting suspect’s iPhone and how much the government paid to do it.
For a second consecutive year, the Obama administration set a record for times federal employees told citizens, journalists and others that despite searching they couldn’t find a single page of files that were requested.
Br. 14) that the negative implication of Section 3501 (c) "is that confes sions made outside the six-hour time limitation set forth in § 3501 (c) are inadmissible * * * if the defendant's presentment to a magistrate was unnecessarily de layed." Whatever negative implication might otherwise be drawn from Section 3501 (c) standing alone, such an implication cannot be drawn where it would override the affirmative command of Section 3501 (a) that all volun tary confessions _shall be admissible in evidence," 18 U.S.C. 3501 (a), and the provision in Section 3501 (b) that the "time elapsing between arrest and arraignment of the defendant making the confession, if it was made after arrest and before arraignment" is a factor in the voluntariness calculus. See United States v. Marrero, 450 F.2d 373, 379 (2d Cir. 1971) (Friendly, C.J., concur ring) (agreeing with the Ninth Circuit's decision in Uni ted States v. Halbert, 436 F.2d 1226, 1231-1237 (1970), which had "conclude [d] that confessions given more than six hours after arrest during a delay in arraignment are admissible if voluntary, although the trial judge * * * may take into account delay in arraignment in his deter mination of voluntariness" (id. at 1237); "we cannot say that Congress intended by the provision in subsection 3501 (c) to undo all it had done with the preceding sub sections" (id. at 1234)). " [N]ot every silence is preg nant" and " [a]n inference drawn from" what Congress did not say in Section 3501 (c) "cannot be credited when it is contrary to" the text of a different provision of the same statute. Burns v. United States, 501 U.S. 129, 136 (1991) (first brackets in original) (citation omitted).
A. Section 3501 (a) states a general rule that a volun tary confession "shall be admissible in evidence." Sec tion 3501 (b) makes delay in presentment to a magistrate a factor in the voluntariness analysis. Those provisions preclude suppression of a confession based on delay in presentment alone. Petitioner contends that Section 3501 (c) requires exclusion of a confession made more than six hours after arrest where the additional delay was neither reasonable nor necessary. That reading of Section 3501 (c) not only is out of sync with the general reluctance to adopt exclusionary rules because of the substantial costs they impose, but is also untenable as a matter of statutory construction.
Nor can Section 3501 (a) be displaced on the theory that Section 3501 (c) is a more specific command that supersedes the general rule of Section 3501 (a). That principle applies only where the two commands are in consistent, and nothing in the safe-harbor provision of Section 3501 (c) conflicts with the rule of admissibility under Section 3501 (a). Petitioner also cannot convert Section 3501 (c) into a rule of exclusion based on the principle that it would otherwise be rendered superflu ous. Section 3501 (c)'s safe harbor provision clarifies the law of admissibility in one particular situation, even if the general voluntariness rule would lead to the same result in case-by-case application. There is no rule against Congress taking a belt-and-suspenders approach to addressing an issue. And it does not rewrite Section 3501 (c) to treat its reference to admissibility as a reiter ation of voluntariness in light of the overriding command of voluntariness in Section 3501 (a).
D. The court of appeals' interpretation of Section 3501 (c) is not constitutionally doubtful, as petitioner believes and thus does not trigger the avoidance canon. According to petitioner, the holding below narrows the basis for finding a confession involuntary by precluding such a finding based solely on delay of less than six hours after arrest. Congress cannot limit the grounds on which a confession may be found constitutionally in voluntary. But no serious argument can be made that any confession would be found involuntary based solely on a delay in presentment of six hours or less. Accord ingly, no serious question would be raised even if Sec tion 3501 is read to preclude a finding of involuntariness based solely on a delayed presentment of less than six hours.
E. Policy arguments likewise cannot justify reading an exclusionary rule into Section 3501 (c). This Court has strongly cautioned against judicial imposition of exclusionary rules, see, e.g., Hudson v. Michigan, 547 U.S. 586, 591 (2006); McNeil v. Wisconsin, 501 U.S. 171, 181 (1991), and the high cost of excluding voluntary confessions vastly outweighs any marginal benefits that would be achieved by encouraging prompt presentment. No demonstrated pattern of violations exists, and if one were to emerge, Congress and rule-making committees are well situated to frame the proper response.
If Section 3501 is construed correctly, the statute contains no exclusionary rule for a delay in presentment standing alone, and it mandates the admission of volun tary confessions. See pp. 13-25, supra. Petitioner also seems to argue, however, that his confessions were inad missible because Section 3501 "limits but does not en tirely abrogate" (Pet. Br. 24 (emphasis omitted)) the exclusionary rule created by McNabb and Mallory. Un der that view, even if Section 3501 (c) did not "codify" the McNabb-Mallory rule, it left that supervisory-powers rule intact for confessions taken after six hours of delay in presentment. That contention is without merit.
Obama made another $3.7 million from government salaries.
Obama made another $3.7 million from government salaries.
But from 2005 to 2015, they gave away $1.6 million, or 8% of their earnings. Obama made less money every year he stayed in the Oval Office.
This article is more than 4 years old. When Barack Obama joined the U.S. Senate in 2005, he was a 43-year old former law professor making $85,000 a year. In the 12 years since then, he won the White House, reworked the nation’s laws, ended two wars—and earned $20 million.
He agreed not to publish another non-fiction book during his time in office, while signing a $500,000 advance for a young adult version of Dreams From My Father. He also finished the manuscript for Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters, which was eventually published in November 2010. He donated all post-tax profits from the children’s book to provide scholarships for children of wounded and fallen soldiers.
From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year.
However, on this matter the University of Chicago Law School itself is not standing on formality, and is siding with Obama. Due to numerous press inquiries on the matter, the school released a carefully worded statement saying that for his 12 years there he was considered to be "a professor.". UC Law School statement: The Law School has received ...
Singer (March 27): Sen. Obama has often referred to himself as “a constitutional law professor” out on the campaign trail. He never held any such title. And I think anyone, if you ask anyone in academia the distinction between a professor who has tenure and an instructor that does not, you’ll find that there is … you’ll get quite an emotional response.
A spokesperson for her confirmed to PolitiFact in 2011 that the first lady’s staff size was closer to 25.
It’s true that the current president donates his salary, but Obama donated about $2.5 million to charities while in office. Michelle Obama’s staff was about 25, but Melania Trump’s is about 11.
Trump and Obama on salary. U.S. presidents make $400,000 a year. It’s true that Trump donates his salary. Though presidents are required to be compensated for their work, Trump takes just $1 each year from his paychecks. He has donated a quarter of his annual salary to a different government agency each fiscal quarter.
Fox News confirmed that by October 2017 the first lady had a staff of nine.
When Hillary Clinton left her role as first lady, her staff size was 19 and as McCormick-Lelyveld suggests, Laura Bush ’s was between 24 and 26.
Michelle Obama’s staff was bigger than Melania Trump’s, but numbers are off. According to the 2020 annual report to Congress on White House office personnel, there are eight roles directly tied to the first lady via title. But there are other staffers who work for the first lady and do not have that phrase in their title.
Many of Obama's executive orders were innocuous and warranted little fanfare; they provided for a line of succession in certain federal departments, for example, or established certain commissions to oversee emergency preparedness.
The list of Obama controversies include a broken promise that Americans would be able to keep their insurers under the Affordable Care Act health care overhaul and accusations he downplayed links between terrorist acts and Islamic militants.
The IRS scandal of 2013 refers to the Internal Revenue Service's disclosure that it had targeted conservative and Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny leading up to the 2012 presidential election between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney.
But Obama signed only two gun control laws and neither of them placed any restrictions on gun owners.
Pete Souza / Official White House Photo. When sequestration was first put in the Budget Control Act of 2011 to encourage Congress to reduce the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion by the end of 2012, the White House and Republican lawmakers alike praised the mechanism. And then came the budget cuts.
And nobody wanted to own the sequester. So who's idea was it? You might be surprised to learn that Washington Post veteran reporter Bob Woodward pinned the sequester firmly on Obama .
Obama later agreed with a State Department determination that the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline would not be in the best interests of the United States.