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Barack Obama and Michelle Obama she was Michelle Robinson then were among scores of Harvard Law students Ogletree guided and encouraged during his many years at the school.

Through his work as a lawyer and professor, Ogletrees legacy reached beyond the schools Cambridge classrooms. He counseled Anita Hill when she appeared before the US Senate Judiciary Committee, during US Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomass confirmation hearings. In addition, Ogletree counted among his law clients rap artist Tupac Shakur and former agriculture secretary Mike Espy.

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After meeting Barack Obama, Ogletree soon became a father figure as well as a mentor. We arent that much different in age, but here was someone he could talk or meet with, Ogletree recalled in a 2009 Globe interview.

Those conversations werent just about what he wanted to do as a young lawyer, Ogletree said of his talks with Obama, but that he, like many students, wanted to do something meaningful.

Ogletree became a lasting friend to the president and his wife, Michelle Obama, whom he also had mentored at Harvard Law School.

In his statement Saturday, Obama reminisced about how Ogletree took time on weekends to run something called Saturday School for Black students who didnt necessarily have the support systems at home to get them through the difficult first years of law school.

Saturday School soon became so popular that students of every background began showing up to hear Charles explain things in a way they could understand, the former president said. It was an example of the kind of person Charles has always been: unfailingly helpful, and driven by a genuine concern for others.

Obama was one of many who shared recollections on social media and elsewhere about Ogletree, who was known to friends by the nickname Tree.

You cannot imagine the influence Tree had on a generation (or three) of lawyers committed to fighting for justice, Sherrilyn Ifill, former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

His voice had an R&B timbre and his mind was so supple and sharp, Ifill added. I loved listening to him argue.

In an X post, Cornell William Brooks, the Hauser professor of the practice of nonprofit organizations at the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote that it is exceedingly difficult to overstate the stature of legal giant Prof. Charles Ogletree in the minds & hearts of multitudes of lawyers.

Ogletree represented an excellence of practice, pedagogy, & justice. For many, he inspired visions of what we might become, wrote Brooks, who also is professor of the practice of public leadership and social justice at the Kennedy School and a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School.

Christina Swarns, executive director of the Innocence Project, posted on X that Tree was brilliant and an absolute warrior for justice. He was also incredibly kind, generous with his time, and a mentor to many, including me.

And Janai Nelson, the current president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, wrote that Tree, his friends say, could not have been more aptly nicknamed: He stood tall, offering protection and cover, and he was a force of nature who will continue to bear fruit for generations to come.

In his statement Saturday, Obama said that Michelle and I are heartbroken to hear about the passing of our friend and mentor Charles Ogletree, adding that their thoughts were with Ogletrees wife, Pamela, the rest of the family, and everyone who knew and loved this remarkable man.

In the 2009 Globe interview, two months after Obama was elected, Ogletree said that theres something special about trying to prepare for calling Barack Mr. President. And he predicted that his former student might object to such formality.

Hes going to say, Come on, Tree, Ogletree said. The point will be, Dont go so upscale on me.

Bryan Marquard can be reached at bryan.marquard@globe.com.

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If youre confused about the Ryan Gosling Barack Obama movie trailers and posters, here are all of the must-know details about Yes We Can. For those wondering Is Ryan Gosling really playing the U.S. president?, heres the need-to-know info.

No, Ryan Gosling is not playing Barack Obama in an upcoming movie.

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Its highly unlikely that Ryan Gosling, a white actor, would be playing Barack Obama, Americas first black president in a movie called Yes We Can.

Those hoping to see a movie where Ryan Gosling takes on the role of Barack Obama will be sorely disappointed to learn that it simply is not happening. There have been no announcements suggesting that Gosling is portraying Obama in either a movie or TV show, and there havent been any credible leaks pointing towards a project like this being in the works.

The Ryan Gosling Barack Obama movie trailers and posters are fake.

The Ryan Gosling Barack Obama trailers that can be found on YouTube, TikTok, and other video platforms are made using existing footage of Ryan Gosling from other movies. Creators have cut together scenes from previous roles to make it seem like a Barack Obama movie trailer.

As for the posters, these have been created using photo-editing apps like Adobe Photoshop in addition to A.I. generative applications. This can make for believable results.

Those looking to watch a movie about Barack Obama should try the following:

For more entertainment content, heres ComingSoons Meg 2: The Trench review in which the movie is described as unforgivably idiotic. Also, here are three reasons why Barbenheimer has taken over the box office.

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The moral of the story is, always check your spam folder, directed Sara Day, the teen librarian for Woodland Public Library. You never know whos in there. This might sound like questionable advice, but Day speaks from experience in her spam folder a few months ago, a message from theObama Foundation lay buried underneath department store promotions and emails from hopeful hackers until she checked it on a whim. At first, we were like, this has to be a joke. This cant be real, she said. But we did a little research, and we realized it was.

The foundation told the library that they could do whatever we thought would highlight our library, according to circulation director Sylvia Moreno.

Obama was just, like, an added bonus, Moreno said.

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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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Republican allies of Donald Trump are stepping up their attacks on Washington, D.C., District Judge Tanya Chutkan and the D.C. court itself, arguing it would be impossible for the former president to get a fair trial in the nation’s capital city.

Judge Chutkan’s ruling against Trump two years ago in a legal dispute over handing his presidential records to House investigators and the tough sentences the Obama appointee handed down to Jan. 6 defendants are drawing scrutiny and criticism from Trump’s allies. 

Her record of contributing money to former President Obama’s presidential campaigns — and the political leanings of D.C.’s residents, who would comprise the jury pool — are also coming under Republican attack.   

A growing number of Republicans say the odds in the D.C. District Court are so stacked against Trump that a guilty verdict would lack legitimacy.

“I don’t think any Republican, much less any America-first type Republican, could ever expect to have a fair trial in a D.C. setting with a D.C. judge and D.C. jury. It’s all meant to rubber-stamp what they already want to see happen,” said Ned Ryun, the founder and CEO of American Majority, a national grassroots conservative group.  

“Of course it’s a rigged game. I think any fair-minded person would step back and say, ‘If you really want this to be a legitimate pursuit of justice, you would not be having it in D.C.,’” he said. “I don’t think it’s fair, I don’t think it will be legitimate.” 

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accused Chutkan of having “a reputation for being far left, even by D.C. District Court standards.” 

He noted that she had set aside “numerous federal death penalty cases” and “is the only federal judge in Washington DC, who has sentenced Jan. 6 defendants to sentences longer than the government requested.”  

Even Trump’s political rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), came to his defense by arguing that he won’t get a fair trial.  

“Washington, DC, is a ‘swamp’ and it is unfair to have to stand trial before a jury that is reflective of the swamp mentality,” he posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.  

He argued that the “politicization of the rule of law” is causing national decline and pledged “to end the weaponization of the federal government.”  

The other federal case against Trump will take place in Florida under District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee. That case involves charges related to Trump keeping classified documents at his estate at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

In the Jan. 6 case, Trump faces charges related in part to the mob of his supporters who invaded the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to interrupt the congressional certification of the Electoral College vote. The mob marched near the D.C. District Court served by Chutkan, who was chosen as part of a random draw to preside over the Trump case.

None of this has stopped supporters of Trump from arguing it is unfair for him to be tried there, suggesting they see it as a strong political argument to make as he seeks another win in a GOP presidential primary.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a prominent Trump ally in the House, took aim at Washington’s overwhelmingly Democratic voter registration in her arguments.  

“Those are not his peers. Everybody knows this. Everyone knows he has no shot of a fair trial in the Washington, D.C., court system,” she said of the makeup of the District’s jury pool.  

“He’s being indicted for saying the election was stolen. You know who else said the election was stolen? Hillary Clinton,” she said, referring to an interview former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave in 2019 in which she dismissed Trump as an “illegitimate president” and accused him of voter suppression. 

President Biden carried Washington, D.C., with more than 92 percent of the vote in the 2020 election, while Trump won only 5 percent. Clinton beat Trump in D.C. in 2016 with nearly 91 percent of the vote.  

Republicans predict that Trump will almost certainly face a guilty verdict in a trial that takes place in Washington, D.C. They say he has a better chance of winning on appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court, depending on the makeup of any appellate panel that rules on his case.  

“The likelihood that a D.C. jury will vote to convict Donald Trump is exceptionally high, and the facts don’t matter. The laws don’t matter. They hate him,” Cruz said on his podcast, “Verdict.” 

“That’s a big part of the reason why the Biden [Department of Justice] wants to bring this case in D.C., which means with a far-left judge and a far-left jury; there is a very real possibility that Donald Trump ends up being convicted,” he said.  

Cruz on Thursday retweeted a report that Chutkan had donated money to Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012 before she was confirmed to the federal bench in 2014.  

He predicted the conviction wouldn’t stand on appeal and that his case would ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court.  

Trump on Wednesday called for the trial to be moved to West Virginia, a state he carried with 29 percent of the vote in 2020. 

“The latest Fake ‘case’ brought by Crooked Joe Biden & Deranged Jack Smith will hopefully be moved to an impartial Venue, such as the politically unbiased nearby State of West Virginia!” Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social.  

Republicans are scrutinizing Chutkan’s record on the bench, especially her rulings in cases related to Trump and people who overran the Capitol on Jan. 6. 

In December 2021, she gave a five-year prison sentence to a Florida man who dispensed a fire extinguisher in the Capitol and threw it and a wooden plank at Capitol police. At the time, it was the longest sentence imposed on a Jan. 6 defendant.  

In another 2021 sentencing, she dismissed the prosecution’s recommendations that a defendant serve a period of home confinement as too light a punishment and instead sentenced the individual to 45 days in jail, proclaiming: “There have to be consequences for participating in an attempted violent overthrow of government.”  

As the presiding judge, Chutkan will have the power to make hugely important decisions in the case, such as whether an appellate court should hear some of the process arguments before the trial goes to verdict.  

She will also have say over the timing of the case and the penalty if Trump is found guilty.  

Trump’s legal team has sought to delay the start of his trial in the Southern District of Florida on charges that he violated the Espionage Act and conspired to obstruct the FBI’s efforts to recover classified documents from his Mar-a-Lago residence until after the 2024 election.  

Trump faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for each of two counts of obstructing the vote certification proceedings.  

He also faces a maximum punishment of 10 years in prison for conspiring against the right to vote and another maximum of five years incarceration for defrauding the United States. 

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Not everyone can say that a former President listens to your music. But La Doa isnt just anyone. Former President Barack Obama recentlyrevealed the 2023 version of his annual summer playlist, which included the Chicanas 2022 dembow-infused salsa track Penas Con Pan. Her reaction? Nothing short of surprised especially coming from someone with her political views.

I was in a meeting, and my homegirl Jaz Vargas actually texted me, OMG, Obama listens to La Doa, and I was like, Girl,what? I was so swamped, she recalls. I was like, What are you talking about? And she sent me a screenshot of the playlist.

La Doa recalls the emotions, describing the contrast between a triumph youre striving for and an achievement you didnt even imagine. That was so crazy. It was so outside of anything that I had been anticipating, thinking about, or even striving towards. When something good happens that youve been working towards and wanting, youre like, Yay! But when its just a shock out of nowhere, its a very distinct feeling, she told Remezcla over a Zoom video conversation.

The fact that a president made this inclusion gave La Doa more to reflect on, given that her perception of the government isnt rose-tinted. She describes herself as an anti-nationalist and shares her voice in mediums likethe recent documentary calledAnthem, which unravels the layers of the national anthem. Its all very different and new for me: to feel like I was being green-lighted by the United States of America. Im anti-nationalist, Im a community organizer, Im anti-border. So its just pretty hilarious and kind of unexpected, she said. But its also really fortifying to feel that somebody with my perspective and my political orientations can still be appealing and interesting musically to people across a wide spectrum of beliefs and orientations.

Besides being part of Obamas annual playlist, the experimental artist has a new song that came out on Aug. 3. Paloma No Vuelve Amar, a heartfelt cumbia inspired by a recent breakup, is the first single from her upcoming EPCant Eat Cloutthats due Sept. 15. The lyrics narrate a story about someone getting through heartbreak that eventually molds the persons identity.

Moreover, shes also performing atOutside Lands in San Francisconext week (Aug. 11), where she will be accompanied by a 10-piece band for the first time. Thats not the only reason itll be a special performance; shes also excited to bring different genres like cumbia, salsa, hip-hop, and a traditional style type of band onto the massive festivals stage. I feel incredibly honored that I get to be one of the first artists doing it and [to be] one of the first Latinx artists to do it, she shared.

Whether first or not, La Doa will always remain authentic on and off stages. Anyone who discovers her through lists like Obamas should expect that unfiltered talent. The thing about me is that Im really not able to divorce my political opinions from my career, she noted. I feel very strongly about a lot of things. And I will represent these opinions and perspectives I grew up with coming out of a feminist and antiracist household. So I cant divorce those things.

I feel very strongly about a lot of things. And I will represent these opinions and perspectives.

She continued: The first things that people started sending me the playlist, and they were like, Damn, I know Obama dropped hella bombs, but hes dropping that bomb playlist too. I was like, oh my God, you guys. People are making so many jokes like that. And I was like, you know me too well.

Before the conversation was over, she mentioned that regardless of her views, it was a win that she had to celebrate while also remaining critical of at the same time. You cant become swayed too much by the clout, right? I mean, thats the whole premise of my EP that youCant Eat Clout, she told Remezcla. At the end of the day, you have to feel good about how you lived your life and how you represented your people and your opinions. You cant really let the clout or the recognition sway you from those opinions. Its one with the other.

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