6 results for "Charlie Savage"
U.S. gets secret order, collects phone records
Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act, according to a highly classified...
Obama to limit drone attacks
Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 12:00 AMPresident Barack Obama plans to open a new phase in the nation's long struggle with terrorism today by restricting the use of unmanned drone strikes that have been at the heart of his national security strategy and shifting control of them a...
Host of legal questions await in suspect's case
Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe capture of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect raises a host of freighted legal issues for a society still feeling the shadow of 9/11, including whether he should be read a Miranda warning, how he should be charged, where he might be tried a...
How justices could alter Voting Rights Act
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 12:00 AMIf the Supreme Court strikes down or otherwise guts a centerpiece of the Voting Rights Act, there will be far less scrutiny of thousands of decisions each year about redrawing district lines, moving or closing polling places, changing voting hou...
Ruling a setback for the president
Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 12:00 AMIn a ruling that called into question nearly two centuries of presidential "recess" appointments that bypass the Senate confirmation process, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution wh...
Obama's court choices fewer, less controversial
Saturday, August 18, 2012 at 12:00 AMWASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is set to end his term with dozens fewer lower-court appointments than both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush achieved in their first four years, and probably with less of a lasting ideological i...
