boston.com - 1/10/2009
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In choosing Cass R. Sunstein to lead his regulatory reform effort, President-elect Barack Obama has tapped a leading public intellectual and legal scholar who has been called a one-man think tank. The 54-year-old Harvard Law School professor is an idea-generating machine, prolific writer, and ...
chicagotribune.com - 1/8/2009
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chicagotribune.com —
WASHINGTON — Cass Sunstein, a longtime University of
Chicago legal scholar and prominent author, is set to...
take up a key cause in the Barack Obama administration: regulation. The president-elect is expected to name Sunstein—his friend and informal ...
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Barack Obama asks longtime University of Chicago ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 1/8/2009
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
By Michael D. Shear President-elect Barack Obama will
name Cass Sunstein, a close friend and one of...
the nation's top constitutional lawyers, to a senior-level post in charge of government regulation, a transition official said. A professor of law at ...
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Obama Picks Sunstein to Oversee Regulations
pajamasmedia.com - 1/8/2009
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pajamasmedia.com —
CASS SUNSTEIN TO REGULATORY AFFAIRS: Obama to Name
Lawyer Friend To Regulatory Affairs Position. “President-elect Barack Obama...
will name Cass R. Sunstein, a close friend and one of the nation’s top constitutional lawyers, to a ...
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CASS SUNSTEIN TO REGULATORY AFFAIRS: Obama to Name ...
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How Anti-Regulation Is Obama’s New Regulatory Czar?
Wonk Room —
... It’s unfair, of course, to paint the 54-year-old Sunstein as a complete clone of Graham and the other Bush anti-regulatory zealots. Indeed, Sunstein has earned a reputation as a genuine progressive on some issues, arguing in 2004 for the implementation of a “Second Bill of Rights” promoted in January 1944 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, to guarantee the “right of every American to a job, a home, and medical care.” ...
Assorted Reactions to Cass Sunstein's Appointment as Obama's Regulation Czar Head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Hit & Run —
... It's unfair, of course, to paint the 54-year-old Sunstein as a complete clone of [John] Graham and the other Bush anti-regulatory zealots. Indeed, Sunstein has earned a reputation as a genuine progressive on some issues, arguing in 2004 for the implementation of a "Second Bill of Rights" promoted in January 1944 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, to guarantee the "right of every American to a job, a home, and medical care." ...
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boston.com 1/18/2009 — Because of a business trip, a historic day in American history won't fit into the Washington Wizards' busy schedule. More than a million people are expected to attend Barack Obama's inauguration Tuesday in Washington. The Wizards, however, depart ...
It's a dog's life - and he wants in - The Boston Globe
boston.com 1/11/2009 — I want to be your dog. Really, I do. Man's best friend has it made. Have you noticed that while banks, brokers, and the Big Three are on their knees begging, dogs are living larger than ever? Not since Caligula's horse, with its immaculate marble ...
Sunstein to Head OIRA:
volokh.com 1/8/2009 — The WaPo reports this morning that Cass Sunstein is going to be the OIRA Administrator. This is really terrific news and continues the remarkable tradition of the extraordinarily high talent...
Sunstein Is Dissembling
corner.nationalreview.com 10/27/2008 — I just sent this to Ben Smith: Cass Sunstein and others, like Bruce Ackerman, have been touting this positive law stuff for years. They advocate institutionalizing the liberal agenda through the courts, particularly the 14th Amendment. Equal rights ...
Smearing Cass Sunstein
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 4/30/2009 — Cass Sunstein is a brilliant progressive lawyer whose views on regulation are, if anything, somewhat more conservative than those of most Democrats. He’s friendly to cost-benefit analysis, and a proponent of the idea that public policy should try to “nudge” people as an ...
Obama Getting Serious About Financial Re-Regulation
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/9/2009 — We've heard talk from various quarters in recent weeks about the pressing need to re-regulate the financial markets, in response to the SEC's failure in the Bernard Madoff case, and to the broader financial crisis.
And in his interview yesterday ...
What's the real value of Harvard's endowment?
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 12/26/2008 — For years, financial journalists have been hearing about the extraordinary talents of the clever chaps who run Harvard's endowment. In some way that is not quite clear to me, the vast and shadowy operations of the richest and most elitist ...
Obama Family Tours Washington —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 1/10/2009
President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle took their daughters to the Lincoln Memorial Saturday night on the family’s first full weekend together in Washington ahead of the inauguration.
The Obamas held the girls’ hands as ...
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