On his first day in office in January 2009, President Obama promulgated a number of executive orders that fulfilled various campaign promises. Like other presidents before him, Obama used these first executive actions to incorporate fundamental or sy...
Daniel Duhaime
Dan Duhaime is a senior concentrating in Political Science (American Politics) and History (Modern North America). A de jure native of Mansfield, MA and de facto product of Providence, he is currently writing an honors thesis on the legal-strategic sustainability of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force. He appreciates a good footnote, his dog Maddie, and the economics of NFL roster construction.
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On his first day in office in January 2009, President Obama promulgated a number of executive orders that fulfilled various campaign promises. Like other presidents before him, Obama used these first executive actions to incorporate fundamental or sy...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Since I first wrote about the U.S. government’s (“USG”) bulk collection of telephony metadata in September, public understanding of the program has changed dramatically. Dozens of opinions, orders and thousands of pages of court and...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Since I first wrote about the U.S. government’s (“USG”) bulk collection of telephony metadata in September, public understanding of the program has changed dramatically. Dozens of opinions, orders and thousands of pages of court and...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
On 14 January, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Verizon v. FCC, vacating aspects of an FCC regulation imposing anti-blocking and anti-discrimination requirements on broadband providers. College students hold these principles of net neutralit...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
On 14 January, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Verizon v. FCC, vacating aspects of an FCC regulation imposing anti-blocking and anti-discrimination requirements on broadband providers. College students hold these principles of net neutralit...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Donald Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General of the United States. U.S. Gov’t Work, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. The implications of the Snowden disclosures continued to permeate the federal judiciary Wednesday with the filing of a motion in U....
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Donald Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General of the United States. U.S. Gov’t Work, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. The implications of the Snowden disclosures continued to permeate the federal judiciary Wednesday with the filing of a motion in U....
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Nearly all Brown students are familiar with the concept of mutually assured destruction. Taught in even the most cursory of Cold War histories, this theory refers to a form of deterrence whereby the overwhelming and reciprocal threat of destruction p...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Nearly all Brown students are familiar with the concept of mutually assured destruction. Taught in even the most cursory of Cold War histories, this theory refers to a form of deterrence whereby the overwhelming and reciprocal threat of destruction p...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Carol Bond was initially thrilled when she learned her friend, Myrlinda Haynes, was pregnant. She was understandably a little less thrilled when she discovered that her husband, who had been having an affair with Haynes, was the father. So, naturally...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Carol Bond was initially thrilled when she learned her friend, Myrlinda Haynes, was pregnant. She was understandably a little less thrilled when she discovered that her husband, who had been having an affair with Haynes, was the father. So, naturally...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
It is good to be back after last week’s live-blogging interlude. Only later did I come to know the real reason I was tasked for the assignment: the now infamous and then-still-plausible Commissioner Kelly event was scheduled to take place at the sa...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
It is good to be back after last week’s live-blogging interlude. Only later did I come to know the real reason I was tasked for the assignment: the now infamous and then-still-plausible Commissioner Kelly event was scheduled to take place at the sa...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Starting the Conversation on College Hill. The event is a discussion of the impact of the Citizens United Supreme Court case and what role students can (and should) have in determining public policy. Sponsored by the Brown Political Forum. Lending...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Starting the Conversation on College Hill. The event is a discussion of the impact of the Citizens United Supreme Court case and what role students can (and should) have in determining public policy. Sponsored by the Brown Political Forum. Lending...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Kaley v. United States, a somewhat complicated but deeply consequential case on the scope of pretrial criminal defendants’ Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights. Specifically, in 2005 petitioners Kerri and...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Kaley v. United States, a somewhat complicated but deeply consequential case on the scope of pretrial criminal defendants’ Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights. Specifically, in 2005 petitioners Kerri and...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
In Noel Canning v. NLRB, slated for arguments later this term, the Supreme Court will review the validity of three recess appointments President Obama made to the National Labor Relations Board in January 2012. (While the contemporaneous appointment ...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
In Noel Canning v. NLRB, slated for arguments later this term, the Supreme Court will review the validity of three recess appointments President Obama made to the National Labor Relations Board in January 2012. (While the contemporaneous appointment ...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Abu Anas al-Liby, U.S. Department of State Photo, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain On Saturday evening, I found myself tailgating at Brown Stadium, lamenting aloud how much it would suck to go to URI. At some point, I looked down at my phone and saw ...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
Abu Anas al-Liby, U.S. Department of State Photo, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain On Saturday evening, I found myself tailgating at Brown Stadium, lamenting aloud how much it would suck to go to URI. At some point, I looked down at my phone and saw ...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
As Lena has been covering the notable Supreme Court decisions of this past summer, I figured it would be instructive to preview one of this fall’s most significant cases. Next Tuesday, the justices will once again take up campaign finance law when ...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime
As Lena has been covering the notable Supreme Court decisions of this past summer, I figured it would be instructive to preview one of this fall’s most significant cases. Next Tuesday, the justices will once again take up campaign finance law when ...
Daniel Duhaime
Daniel Duhaime