volokh.com - 11/6/2008
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Politico reports that President-elect Barack Obama is considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the post of Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. A prior report suggested RFK was an...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/6/2008
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
By Juliet Eilperin President-elect Barack Obama is looking
at possibly appointing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head
the Environmental Protection Agency, according to sources familiar with the process, though he is eying several other prominent ...
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Robert F. Kennedy Eyed to Head EPA
mlive.com - 11/5/2008
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mlive.com —
Politico.com President-elect Barack Obama is strongly considering Robert
F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Environmental Protection Agency,
a Cabinet post, Democratic officials told Politico. Obama s transition planners are weighing several other ...
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Obama considers stars for Cabinet -
U.S. Politics & ...
scotusblog.com - 11/11/2008
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scotusblog.com —
Analysis Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s reputation as a
“swing” vote in the Supumereme Court is well known,
and frequently validated. It is not often, though, that the tendency to swing is evident as early as the oral argument in a ...
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Argument analysis: As Kennedy goes…
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“You’ve got yourself an unconfirmable nominee”
Overlawyered —
... too partisan and kind of a nut when it comes to policy. Check out this dangerously alarmist 2005 Rolling Stone piece about the purported link between autism and childhood vaccines. (To learn why Kennedy’s piece was alarmist, see “Sticking Up for Thimerosal” by Arthur Allen in Slate, August 2005.) Throw in Kennedy’s 1983 heroin bust, and you’ve got yourself an unconfirmable nominee.
(”The Uncabinet”, Nov. 5). Jonathan Adler @ Volokh, frequent vaccine-blogger Orac/Respectful Insolence, Jason Zengerle ...
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