Janet Napolitano | |
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President | Barack Obama |
Deputy | Jane Holl Lute Rand Beers (acting) |
Preceded by | Michael Chertoff |
Succeeded by | Jeh Johnson |
^ "Supreme Court turns away Keyes 'birther' lawsuit challenging Obama eligibility to be president". Washington Post. October 3, 2011. ^ Kornhaber, Spencer (November 9, 2009).
He operated out of "a closet-like office" within the space of Eva Paterson, Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee, and used his personal computer. In 1996–1997, Jones and PoliceWatch led a campaign to gain the firing of officer Marc Andaya from the San Francisco Police Department.
She has been voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America. In January 2014, Gloria received the Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Trial Lawyers for her trailblazing role in combating injustice and winning new rights, especially for women and minorities.
Jones founded Advocates for Opioid Recovery together with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy.
John Charles Eastman (born April 21, 1960) is an American lawyer who is the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public interest law firm affiliated with the conservative think tank Claremont Institute. He is a former professor and dean at the Chapman University School of Law.
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$890,000Drake's appointment by the Regents as President of the University, Dr. Drake's annual base salary be $890,000, which will be funded by State sources.
Napolitano has stated that he is not related to former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, who he sometimes jokingly calls "Evil Cousin Janet".
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Levi received nearly $308,000 in total compensation from the Obama Foundation and related organizations in 2019, per the nonprofit’s most recent federal tax filing. Sidley Austin, the law firm where Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama met in 1989, received $1.8 million in legal fees from the Obama Foundation in 2019.
That announcement was called “ grossly premature ” in a statement by Chicago lawyer Herbert Caplan, president of Protect Our Parks, an organization suing the Obama Foundation as part of a years-long effort designed to shift construction of the OPC to a different site on Chicago’s South Side.
David Simas, a former Obama White House lawyer who has been the nonprofit’s CEO since 2016, was paid almost $658,000 in 2019. Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, a Yale Law School graduate and former senior adviser at BlackRock Inc., received nearly $220,000 from the Obama Foundation after becoming the nonprofit’s president in August 2019.
The Obama Foundation has a new general counsel in Shawn White, a former top lawyer to billionaire philanthropist and Democratic Party donor Eli Broad.
Levi, a former Covington & Burling associate who served as a deputy associate White House counsel in the Obama administration, didn’t respond to a request for comment. Levi joined the Obama Foundation as an associate general counsel in 2017, the same year she married William Levi, who stepped down in December as chief of staff to former U.S.
In 2019, Jones was announced as the CEO of REFORM Alliance, an initiative founded by Jay-Z, Meek Mill, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft among others. The initiative aims to reform the criminal justice system, and has received funding from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
In 2005 the Ella Baker Center expanded its vision beyond the immediate concerns of policing, declaring that "If we really wanted to help our communities escape the cycle of incarceration, we had to start focusing on job, wealth and health creation." In 2005, Jones and the Ella Baker Center produced the "Social Equity Track" for the United Nations' World Environment Day celebration, held that year in San Francisco. It was the official beginning of what would eventually become Ella Baker Center's Green-Collar Jobs Campaign.
By 1996, Jones founded a new umbrella NGO, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. He operated out of "a closet-like office" within the space of Eva Paterson, Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee, and used his personal computer.
Working with the Trump White House and Kim Kardashian, Jones and #cut50 were involved in helping to pass the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform bill the New York Times called "the most substantial changes in a generation" to national crime and sentencing laws.
The Dream Corps. Jones is President of The Dream Corps, a "social enterprise and incubator for powerful ideas and innovations designed to uplift and empower the most vulnerable in our society.". The Dream Corps owns and operates several advocacy projects, including Green for All, #cut50, and #YesWeCode.
Jones and others were arrested during the protests, but the district attorney later dropped the charges against Jones. The arrested protesters, including Jones, won a small legal settlement. Jones later said that "the incident deepened my disaffection with the system and accelerated my political radicalization".
A dentist, lawyer, and former real estate agent, Taitz was a figure in the "birther" movement, which promoted the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not a natural-born citizen eligible to serve as president of the United States. Taitz also promotes other conspiracy theories both related and unrelated to Obama.
Taitz claimed that U.S. president Obama was not a natural-born citizen of the United States and was therefore ineligible to serve as President. She claimed he was born in Kenya and that he falsified his Selective Service papers and his application to the Illinois bar.
Cook, a major in the United States Army Reserve, who challenged orders implementing his voluntary deployment to Afghanistan because of his claim that Obama was not a legitimate president. The case was dismissed when the Army Reserve revoked his order to deploy.
In 2020, Taitz expressed interest in joining Donald Trump 's legal team for the post-election lawsuits he filed challenging the 2020 U.S. presidential election, but expressed skepticism at the assertion made by the legal team that Trump won by a landslide.
Taitz filed an emergency petition in the California Supreme Court in 2008 on behalf of Libertarian vice presidential candidate Gail Lightfoot to stop the certification of California's 2008 election results because of the challenge to Obama's eligibility. The California Supreme Court denied the petition, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
Taitz immigrated to the United States in May 1987, marrying the Latvian-born Yosef in Las Vegas. Taitz became a naturalized United States citizen in 1992. She received her law degree from Taft Law School and was admitted to practice law in California in December 2002.
On December 22, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal. On June 11, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court declined, without comment, a request by litigants not represented by Taitz to hear the case. Cook v.
Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (born September 20, 1968) is an American news and political commentator, author, and lawyer. He is the co-founder of several non-profit organizations, a three-time New York Times bestselling author, a CNN host and contributor, and an Emmy Award winner.
Jones served as President Barack Obama's Special Advisor for Green Jobs in 2…
Anthony Kapel Jones and his twin sister Angela were born in Jackson, Tennessee, on September 20, 1968, to high school teacher Loretta Jean (née Kirkendoll) and middle school principal Willie Anthony Jones. His sister said that as a child, he was "the stereotypical geek—he just kind of lived up in his head a lot." Jones has said as a child he was "bookish and bizarre." His grandfather was a leader in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, and Jones sometimes accompanied him to r…
Jones's awards and honors include:
• 1996 – Brick Award Now renamed as Dosomething Awards
• 1997–1999 – Rockefeller Foundation "Next Generation Leadership" fellowship
• 1998 – Reebok International Human Rights Award
• Jones, Van; Conrad, Ariane (2008). The Green Collar Economy. New York: HarperOne. ISBN 978-0-06-165075-8.
• Jones, Van (2012). Rebuild the Dream. New York: Nation Books. ISBN 978-1-56858-714-1.
• Jones, Van (2017). Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together. Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0399180026.
• Al Gore
• Efficient energy use
• Green-collar worker
• Green economy
• List of people from Tennessee
• Official website
• Van Jones at TED
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Van Jones at IMDb
• Van Jones on Charlie Rose
Orly Taitz (Hebrew: אורלי טייץ; born August 30, 1960) is a Moldovan-American political conspiracy theorist and political candidate. A dentist, lawyer, and former real estate agent, Taitz was a figure in the "birther" movement, which promoted the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not a natural-born citizen eligible to serve as president of the United States. Taitz also promotes other conspiracy t…
Taitz was born to a Jewish family in Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, in the Soviet Union (present-day Moldova). Both of her parents were science teachers. In 1981, Taitz immigrated to Israel, where she obtained a dentistry degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1987, she met Yosef Taitz who proposed four months later. Taitz immigrated to the United States in May 1987, marrying the Latvian-born Yosef in Las Vegas. Taitz became a naturalized United States citizen i…
Taitz claimed that U.S. president Obama was not a natural-born citizen of the United States and was therefore ineligible to serve as President. She claimed he was born in Kenya and that he falsified his Selective Service papers and his application to the Illinois bar.
Taitz made other claims against Obama, including:
• That a number of homosexuals from Obama's former church have died mysteriously.
Taitz received media attention in connection with Obama's presidential eligibility questions in late 2008. She was interviewed by co-hosts David Shuster and Tamron Hall on MSNBC on August 3, 2009. Various media outlets described her appearance on the network as an "implosion", as Taitz asserted that Shuster, who is Jewish, was a "brownshirt", a charge she repeated in a phone interview the following week.
• Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories
• Official web site
• Orly Taitz at IMDb