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Obama) was dismissed on March 1, 2012, on the ground that the court had jurisdiction only to hear challenges to defects in the nominating papers, which did not include questions about Obama's status as a natural-born citizen. [151] Two other suits, including one filed by Philip Berg (plaintiff in Berg v. Obama), were similarly dismissed. [152]
Barack Obama sponsored 147 bills from January 4, 2005 until November 16, 2008. Two became law. [1] This figure does not include bills to which Obama contributed as cosponsor, such as the Coburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 or the Lugar-Nunn Cooperative Proliferation Detection, Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat Reduction Act of 2006.
Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1997), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case establishing that a sitting President of the United States has no immunity from civil law litigation, in federal court, for acts done before taking office and unrelated to the office. [1]
The Former Presidents Act (known also as FPA; 3 U.S.C. § 102 note (P.L. 85-745)) [1] is a 1958 U.S. federal law that provides several lifetime benefits to former presidents of the United States who have not been removed from office solely pursuant to Article Two of the United States Constitution.
An appeals court on Thursday indefinitely suspended the New York law license of Kenneth Chesebro, a former lawyer for Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign, after he pleaded guilty last year ...
Listed below are executive orders numbered 13489–13764 and presidential memoranda signed by U.S. President Barack Obama (2009-2017). There are an additional 1186 presidential proclamations that are not included here, but some of which are on WikiSource. The signing statements made by Obama during his time in office have been archived here.
A judge has recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep former President Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election. Eastman, a ...
Giuliani, who in the 1980s served as U.S. attorney in Manhattan, had been suspended from practicing law in New York since 2021, following Trump supporters' Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.