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53rd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015
Barack Obama faced multiple legal challenges during his presidency, but while he occupied the White House. Most litigation named Obama in his official capacity or targeted the executive branch’s polic...
President Obama’s comprehensive immigration reform was a four-part proposal—strengthen border security, crack down on employers who hire undocumented workers, streamline legal immigration for families...
The analyses show the , with Republican House tactics and leadership decisions blamed in public disputes . . The materials present two clear, repeatable claims: first, that , and second, that . The 20...
Three clusters of litigation involving —eligibility/birther challenges, ’s 2014 lawsuit led by against executive actions implementing the , and repeated state-led challenges including and multistate s...
Congress reacted to the 2011 Libya intervention with a mix of oversight, contested votes, and proposals both to authorize and to constrain the operation — but it did not enact an explicit authorizatio...
The 2013 shutdown deal was primarily negotiated by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell in partnership with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with House leaders John Boehner and Paul Ryan playing...
The central claim is correct: Multiple contemporaneous and retrospective accounts attribute the impasse to , while the Democratic-controlled Senate and the Obama administration refused those condition...