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Executive Order

A Human Rights Petition to President Barack Obama

Wade Norris | Posted 10.28.2009 | Denver

Read More: Human Rights, Executive Order, Environmental Refugees, United Nations, US Senate, Copenhagen, Climate Change, Petition, Barack Obama, Ban-Ki Moon, 350.Org, Denver News
Wade Norris

For environmental refugees both within the United States and internationally, climate change means losing their homes, land and culture.

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What Can Stop the Gay-Bashing in the Military?

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Don't Ask, Stop-Loss, Gays in the Military, President Obama, Joseph Rocha, Gay Bashing, Executive Order, Palm Center, Tailhook, Patrick Murphy, Politics News
Nathaniel Frank

Petty Officer Third Class Joseph Rocha was brutalized for more than two years at his base in Bahrain after his refusal to hire a prostitute raised suspicions that he was gay. This is not an academic debate.

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Why Does Obama Use Executive Power for Everything But Gay Troops?

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stop-Loss, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gays in the Military, Gay Troops, Gay Rights, Signing Statements, Rahm Emanuel, Executive Order, Barack Obama, Meghan McCain, Politics News
Nathaniel Frank

Sometimes moral and political leadership really are one and the same. Ending the needless firing of gay troops is one of those times.

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Sahil Kapur

Transparency Groups Urge Obama To Involve Public In Executive Order Revisions

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Executive Order, Government Secrecy, Executive Power, Steven Aftergood, Transparency, Patrice McDermott, Accountability, Barack Obama, Politics News

As President Obama prepares to modify the rules of executive power, 21 public advocacy groups and individuals are fighting to make sure he fulfills hi...

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In Praise of Assassination

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 08.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Assassination, Politics, Executive Order, Home News
Eric C. Anderson

Congressional outrage over not being told the Central Intelligence Agency had a secret program to kill a select list of al-Qaeda leaders is a needless...

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Obama Courts Disaster With New Detention Plan

Ari Melber | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Obama, Ari Melber, Marc Ambinder, Detention, Executive Order, Politics News
Ari Melber

The Obama administration is rushing towards a unilateral plan to imprison people without trial. The proposal would cut Congress out of the process by using an executive order to essentially bring Gitmo stateside.

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Patients Before Politics: Putting Science First

Susan L. Solomon | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: The New York Stem Cell Foundation, Medical Research, Susan Solomon, Health, Executive Order, Stem Cells, Obama, Stem Cell Research, Nih, Nyscf, Obama Stem Cells, Obama Stem Cell Research, Obama Stem Cell Order, Obama Science Executive Order, 100 Days, Obama Research, Obama Stem Cells Executive Order, Obama Stem Cell Memo, Politics News
Susan L. Solomon

While the Obama administration brings a refreshingly friendly attitude toward science, researchers will still lack easy access to the full range of possibilities that stem cells present.

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One Reason Why Gitmo Failed and (I Hope) Obama Won't

David Danzig | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Human Rights, Cia, Executive Order, Interrogation, Torture, Politics News
David Danzig

"When he took over [Gitmo], General Miller knew so little about questioning Al Qaeda suspects that he probably did not even know how to spell 'interrogation,'" one senior interrogator has told me.

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Obama Says No to Torture; Interrogators Say Yes to Obama

David Danzig | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, Central Intelligence Agency, Executive Order, President Obama, Torture, Books on Torture, Interrogation, Politics News
David Danzig

Interrogators are lauding President Obama for signing an executive order that will shut down secret CIA prisons and place the use of coercive interrogation techniques completely off limits.

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Executive Vigor Without Executive Arrogance III: Three Steps Away from the Unitary Presidency

Peter M. Shane | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Unitary Presidency, Executive Order, Executive Power, Checks and Balances, Midnight Regulation, Obama, Barack Obama, Bush, Politics News
Peter M. Shane

My last two posts focused on whether a newly inaugurated President Obama can move energetically to displace Bush-era policy without embracing a radica...

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Executive Vigor Without Executive Arrogance II: A Primer on Executive Orders

Peter M. Shane | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Checks and Balances, Executive Order, Unitary Presidency, Midnight Regulation, Obama, Executive Power, Barack Obama, Bush, Politics News
Peter M. Shane

If the President issues a pardon, no later President can undo it. After George H. W. Bush pardoned the Iran-Contra defendants, Presidents Clinton could not say: "Hold on! I'm taking those pardons back!"

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The Neo-Cons Are Not Gone, Nor Forgotten

Brian Ross | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Russia, White House, Big Three Automakers, Economy, Executive Order, General Wesley Clark, Ford, Executive Orders, Congress, Scorch and Burn, Dick Cheney, Big Three, Scorched Earth, Chrysler, Bush Administration, Bush White House, General Motors, Neocons, Neo Con, Bush Legacy, Special Interests, Government Regulation, Politics News
Brian Ross

Much of the economic crisis is also being engineered by our sweet neo-cons to create an untenable situation for the Dems coming into power.

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Governors' Global Climate Summit: Thinking As One Planet

Paige Donner | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sebelius, Cap and Trade, World Wildlife Fund, S Renewable Energy, Blagojevich, Governors' Global Climate Summit, Brazil, Nature Conservancy, Executive Order, Renewable Energy, Environm, Eu, Carb, Beverly Hilton, Flex-Fuel, Jim Doyle, Barack Obama, Ental Defense Fund, Canada, Schwarzenegger, Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Indonesia, Poland, Algae Biofuels, Environment, Climate Change, Redd, Copenhagen, Deforestation, China, Crist, Politics News
Paige Donner

What was heard at the Governor's Global Climate Summit, held earlier this week in Los Angeles, was a chorus of international voices.

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Obama: Close Gitmo On Day One -- You Can Do It. We've Got Your Back.

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Executive Order, President Obama, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Day One, Justice, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Obama First 100 Days, Politics News
Anthony D. Romero

Our top issue -- closing down Gitmo and shutting down the military commissions -- can be done as soon as he lifts his left hand, picks up the new presidential pen and signs an executive order.

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Bush Intel Reorganization Gives National Intelligence Director More Power

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence, Executive Order, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Bush's new executive order revising rules for intelligence agencies expands the national intelligence director's powers a...

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Sen. Whitehouse Reveals Secret Justice Dept. Memos: Bush Determines What Is Constitutional

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Office of Legal Counsel, White House, Sheldon Whitehouse, Executive Order, Executive Authority, George W. Bush, Alberto Gonzales, Constitution, Justice Department, Legal Memos, Executive Power, Politics News

This morning, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivered an impassioned floor speech to help frame the debate over FISA reform. Using his privilege as a...

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