President-elect Obama has picked Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein to be the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs within the Office of Management and Budget. In this position, Sunstein will be, in effect, the regulatory czar for the administration. Sunstein is extremely well qualified for this position, having written several books and numerous important articles on various aspects of regulatory policy. Of particular note to Bench Memos readers, however, may also be that Sunstein was among those legal academics who urged the Senate to openly consider the political ideology of judicial nominees, and authored a book on Republican judicial appointments called Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing courts Are Bad for America.
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The Book Comey Wanted to Write
Making the click-through worthwhile: the book James Comey had wanted to write, Facebook starts to feel useless to some writers, an infamous D.C. city councilman manages to make everything worse, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign finds its wish granted.
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Comey’s Handling of Hillary Clinton Shows Us That He’s No Hero
After being pressed by former top Bill Clinton political aide George Stephanopoulos on ABC News, James Comey admitted that he had “screwed up a couple of things.”
The former FBI director wasn’t talking about his failure to notify then–president-elect Donald Trump that unsubstantiated rumors paid for by ...
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We Happy Few: The NR 2018 Spring Webathon Needs Your Participation
Here, grab my hand and I’ll yank you up atop the ramparts with us so you can join the fight against the enemies of all we hold dear. Of course, we’ll need some ammunition: Can you spare some? National Review’s fight is your fight: It’s a grim one without the participation of a full complement of that band ...
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Pro-Life Feminist
My paisana at the Human Life Review are hosting an event in NYC on Thursday, May 3, at the Sheen Center (18 Bleeker Street) for the airing of director Jim Hanon’s half-hour documentary, Pro-Life Feminist. After the viewing, he’ll join the trio of castmates -- Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa, Aimee Murphy, and ...
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Good News for Pompeo
Looks like he's in, as he should be.
https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/987050849317867521
But this fight has been a hint of what life will be like for Trump if the Democrats somehow take the Senate -- they'd refuse to confirm anyone for anything.
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Cuomo Calls Himself ‘Undocumented,’ Draws Ire from Immigrant Groups
New York governor Andrew Cuomo raised eyebrows last week when he called himself "undocumented," even though he was born and raised in New York.
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What Self-Help Guru Tony Robbins Was Trying to Say
Tony Robbins must have known immediately that he'd made a huge mistake in how he responded to a question about #MeToo.
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DOJ IG Recommends Criminal Charges Against Andrew McCabe
The Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has sent a criminal referral regarding former deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe to the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., a source familiar with the matter told CNN Thursday.
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Suicide of the West
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.
-- Ronald Reagan, ...
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