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Firstpost
January 12, 2018
London: US president Donald Trump cancelled a trip to London scheduled for next month to open a new embassy, blaming Barack Obama for selling off the old one for "peanuts" in a bad deal. More than a year into his presidency, Trump has yet to visit London, with many British voters promising massÃâà...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
January 2, 2018
Bruce Kendrick speaks to other members of the Ernie Pyle chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart during a monthly meeting at Wally's ... about military service or medals a matter of free speech when in 2012 it struck down the Stolen Valor Act of 2005, signed into law by President George W. Bush.
War on the Rocks
December 18, 2017
Based on this language, on November 13, 2001, President George W. Bush issued a military order pertaining to the “Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism.” The order was grounded in his inherent authority under Article II of the Constitution, as well as the 2001Ãâà...
The Hill
November 14, 2017
... to meet the same legal threshold as any other military order, meaning it has to be proportional, necessary and distinguish between combatants and civilians. ... Peter Feaver, a professor at Duke University who served in the George W. Bush and Clinton administrations, said “there would be a lot of people”Ãâà...
Politico
October 6, 2017
Emanuel, when he served as Obama's first chief of staff, spoke frequently to Josh Bolten, who filled the role for President George W. Bush. ... Kelly, according to White House officials, has seen less value in the lessons of his predecessors as he tests the limits of what military order can do for Twitter-happyÃâà...
New York Times
April 29, 2017
Mr. Chinnappillai had signed up for Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest, known as Mavni, an immigrant recruiting program created by the George W. Bush administration to bring more foreign-language speakers and trained doctors into the armed forces. Some 10,000 people, most of them in theÃâà...
ThinkProgress
March 17, 2017
As reported by the New York Times' Charlie Savage, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch was “at the center of both litigation and negotiations with Congress” over the George W. Bush administration's positions on “detainee abuses, military commissions, warrantless surveillance and its broad claims ofÃâà...
The New Yorker
February 1, 2017
For readers consumed with the Trumpian chaos of the past ten days, images of a white-robed Pope Francis standing beside a man dressed like a nutcracker—the Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, epauletted and festooned in red and gold—likely seemed absurd and irrelevant.
New Yorker
March 10, 2013
On November 13, 2001, George W. Bush, acting as President and Commander-in-Chief, signed a military order concerning the “Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism.” Under its provisions, suspected terrorists who are not citizens of the United States were toÃâà...
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