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Organizing for Action (OFA) was a nonprofit organization and community organizing project that advocated for the agenda of former U.S. President Barack Obama. [2] [3] The organization was officially non-partisan, [3] but its agenda and policies were strongly allied with the Democratic Party. [4]
Busefink appealed her case to the Nevada Supreme Court, challenging the constitutionality of the statute. [50] [51] In April 2011, ACORN entered a guilty plea to one count of felony compensation for registration of voters, for which they were fined $5,000, [52] but did not concede that the law was constitutional. [51]
President Barack Obama greets and thanks members of the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships during a drop by in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, March 9, 2010. President Barack Obama renamed the office [4] and appointed Joshua DuBois as its head. He also established an advisory council, composed of religious ...
Former President Obama endorsed Florida Democratic Senate candidate Debbie Mucarsel-Powell on Friday, becoming the latest national Democrat to get involved in what is expected to be a tight race ...
Barack Obama sponsored 147 bills from January 4, 2005 until November 16, 2008. Two became law. [1] This figure does not include bills to which Obama contributed as cosponsor, such as the Coburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 or the Lugar-Nunn Cooperative Proliferation Detection, Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat Reduction Act of 2006.
Barack and Michelle Obama sent a letter to survivors of the Parkland, Florida school shooting, which left 17 people dead in February. The Obamas called the students' "resilience, resolve, and ...
President Obama signed the bill into law on October 1. [68] ACORN sued the United States Government in the United States District Court in Brooklyn over the measure, known as the "Defund ACORN Act", claiming it was a bill of attainder, and therefore unconstitutional. Experts varied on the merit of the case, which was styled ACORN v.
[160] Obama has also stated his opposition to allowing citizens to carry concealed firearms [161] and supports a national law outlawing the practice, [162] [163] saying on Chicago Public Radio in 2004, "I continue to support a ban on concealed carry laws". [164] Obama initially voiced support of Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban and said that it ...