Lanny Davis

Lanny Davis - Lanny Davis is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Orrick and a member of the litigation group.

March 11th, 2010

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and, most recently, his daughter, Liz Cheney, a former State Department official, have charged that President Barack Obama and his administration have been overly concerned about the civil liberties of terrorists at the expense of an effective program to prevent another September 11 and to destroy al Qaeda. (more)

February 25th, 2010

Read that headline again. (more)

February 12th, 2010

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February 4th, 2010

“It is my belief that there are ‘absolutes’ in the Bill of Rights and they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be absolutes….[The first Amendment] provides, in simple words, that ‘Congress make no law…abridging the freedom of speech or the press. I read ‘no law abridging” to mean ‘no law abridging.’” — the late Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black (more)

January 28th, 2010

The odds may be slight, but I believe there is still a chance for President Obama to pass a bipartisan health care reform bill, even if it represents a small incremental step that will improve access to health care and opportunities to reduce costs. (more)

January 21st, 2010

Editor's Note: This is the first of a weekly column by Lanny Davis, "Purple Nation," as published in The Hill newspaper. (more)

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