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When Barack Obama takes the oath of office next week, he will look into the eyes of a man who has shaped the 44th president’s legacy like no one else.
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Twice in less than two years, President Barack Obama and U.S. House Speaker John Boehner failed to negotiate a sweeping solution to the nation’s financial challenges. That may not be such a bad thing.
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The Obama administration signaled it will seek U.S. Supreme Court consideration of the landmark health-care overhaul in a move that may lead to a ruling in the middle of the 2012 presidential race.
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Republican-appointed justices split with their Democratic colleagues in a dozen cases, including the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. class-action fight, as an unprecedented dynamic shaped the U.S. Supreme Court term that ended this week.
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John F. Kennedy was the scion of a business fortune. Billionaire Ross Perot’s success spurred his candidacy. Democrat John Kerry’s wife’s fortune dogged his.
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Shortly after his election as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney gathered the people who would fill the state’s top jobs for a get-acquainted luncheon.
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The U.S. Supreme Court indicated that Chief Justice John Roberts will attend President Barack Obama ’s State of the Union address, ensuring a bipartisan delegation at an event that last year drew the justices into a political controversy.
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President Barack Obama faces the specter of twin setbacks at the U.S. Supreme Court in the middle of his re-election campaign with justices questioning his assertion of federal power on both health care and immigration.
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The historic U.S. Supreme Court battle over President Barack Obama’s signature health-care legislation -- with 5 1/2 hours of arguments planned over three days on a matter that affects every American and may influence the 2012 elections -- will test the justices’ refusal to allow live broadcasts of their proceedings.
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