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Barack Obama: what his Memoirs will contain

 

On November 17, the first volume of Barack Obama’s Memoirs, A Promised Land (A promised land), will be published. The New Yorker already reveals the good sheets of this eagerly awaited book. In a new extract posted online, the former president looks back on the bitter struggle of his administration to try to change the daily life of Americans. He then evokes his “major initiatives”, like his reform on immigration and his climate program. “I thought to myself that winning the point that most affected people’s daily lives was our best way to give momentum to the rest of my legislative agenda,” he wrote.

Barack Obama explains that he fought a real battle to reform the health system in the United States. A reform in which Barack Obama believed more than anything. “I was convinced it was so obvious that even in the face of well-structured opposition, I could rally the support of the American people,” the former president recalls of Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, a law passed by the 111e United States Congress and promulgated by the former president on March 23, 2010 providing health coverage to the poorest Americans. A law that Donald Trump wants to repeal. Last June, the Trump administration filed an appeal with the United States Supreme Court to obtain the repeal of this flagship law of its predecessor.

Six out of nine Conservative judges

A more topical subject than ever. This Monday, October 26, the Senate is expected to confirm the appointment of a conservative magistrate to the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic opposed to abortion. With this arrival, the temple of American law will have six conservative judges out of nine, including three appointed by Donald Trump. Democrats, short of options to block this appointment, tried to turn the debates, broadcast in part on television, into a forum on the future of Obamacare health insurance. The High Court must indeed examine on November 10 an appeal against this emblematic law of the former Democratic president, on which the judge has expressed reservations in the past.

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