August 17, 2017 - Long at the forefront of that research, Sunstein, for three years President Obama’s “regulatory czar” heading the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, oversaw a far-reaching restructuring of America’s regulatory state.

As we look at whom Obama surrounds himself with, another problematic individual comes to light as our Regulatory Czar – Cass Sunstein. Sunstein has a very radical stance with a broad series of issues from taxes to animal rights.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CZAR WARS Sunstein: Americans too racist for socialism Defends communism, welfare state but says 'white majority' oppose programs aiding blacks, Hispanics · JERUSALEM - The U.S. should move in the direction of socialism but the country's "white majority" opposes welfare since such programs largely would benefit minorities, especially blacks and Hispanics, argued President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein.

2 days ago - He is also The New York Times best-selling author of The World According to Star Wars (2016) and Nudge (2008). He was the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012.

September 8, 2009 - POLITICO has compiled a wide-ranging list of President Barack Obama’s various “czars.” The bolded names were confirmed by Congress, and the italicized names are statutorily created positions created by Congress in legislation. Afghanistan Czar - Richard Holbrooke AIDS Czar - Jeffrey Crowley Auto Recovery czar - Ed Montgomery Border Czar - Alan Bersin Car Czar - Ron Bloom Central Region Czar - Dennis Ross Domestic Violence Czar - Lynn Rosenthal Drug Czar - Gil Kerlikowske Economic Czar - Paul Volcker Energy and Environment Czar - Carol Browner Faith-Based Czar - Joshua DuBois Great Lakes Czar - Cameron Davis Green Jobs Czar - Van Jones (resigned on Sept. 6) Guantanamo Closure Czar - Daniel Fried Health Czar - Nancy-Ann DeParle Information Czar - Vivek Kundra International Climate Czar - Todd Stern Mideast Peace Czar - George Mitchell Pay Czar - Kenneth Feinberg Regulatory Czar - Cass Sunstein * Science Czar - John Holdren Stimulus Accountability Czar - Earl Devaney - statutory position

August 29, 2022 - The President’s decision to appoint Sunstein as his “regulatory czar” or, more formally, the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), committed the White House to a brand of centralized — which is to ...

February 22, 2013 - So it’s an auspicious moment ... from his University of Chicago Law School days, spent the last four years running the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)....

August 29, 2022 - In his revealing new book about his nearly four years as President Barack Obama’s “regulatory czar,” Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein describes a striking moment: “After I had been in the job for a few years, a Cabinet member showed up at my office and told my chief of staff, ‘I work for Cass Sunstein.’ Of course that wasn’t true – but still.”

March 29, 2019 - The President’s decision to appoint Sunstein as his “regulatory czar” or, more formally, the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), committed the White House to a brand of centralized — which is to ...

August 3, 2012 - President Barack Obama’s regulatory czar Cass Sunstein is resigning his position in the Obama administration, the White House announced on Friday. Sunstein, until now the administrator of the Office of Management and Budget’s powerful Office ...

June 17, 2020 - Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama's "regulatory czar," will leave his administration post and head back to Harvard Law School later this month, Politico reported Friday morning: Sunstein, a celebrity academic who met Barack Obama when they ...

January 27, 2011 - It was conservatives who were reading Sunstein’s many books—he published two between being nominated and being confirmed—and identified a “regulatory czar” who had to be stopped.

January 8, 2009 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama will name Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law School professor who pioneered efforts to design regulation around the ways people behave, as regulatory czar, the Wall ...

Long at the forefront of that research, Sunstein, for three years President Obama’s “regulatory czar” heading the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, oversaw a far-reaching restructuring of America’s regulatory state.

March 13, 2015 - He gained international renown as a legal scholar during 27 years at the University of Chicago. He moved to Harvard Law School in 2008, then spent three years as the Obama Administration"s “regulatory czar” before returning to teaching. Sunstein"s McGlinchey lecture will examine institutional ...

January 12, 2009 - So while conservatives and libertarians may not want to relax entirely, the Sunstein appointment shows that the Obama Administration is perhaps willing to look at new and less intrusive approaches to regulation, something that should make almost everyone (except, perhaps, a few lawyers with investments in business as usual) happy. ... He is now married to Samantha Power and he once had a pet Rhodesian Ridgeback. I have had many interactions with Cass Sunstein and he has been unfailing intelligent and gracious. ... The appointment is baffling, not because the Obama administration has chosen Sunstein (he is a first-rate thinker), but because Sunstein has (apparently) accepted it. OIRA chief is one of the most thankless jobs in Washington, and the office has historically shown itself to be a victim of the political winds no matter how sharp-minded and sincere the chief is.

January 8, 2009 - BOSTON (Reuters) - Cass Sunstein, a leading constitutional scholar, said on Thursday he had agreed to take the post of regulatory czar in the incoming Obama administration, overseeing all governmental regulations.

April 15, 2025 - This could be bad. Cass R. Sunstein, just appointed by President Obama to be “regulatory czar,” is a big “quality of life” guy in determining the cost/benefit ratio of government regulations.

October 30, 2013 - At the end of the month, Sunstein, ... and Public Policy. “For the last three and a half years, Cass Sunstein has helped drive a series of historic accomplishments on behalf of the American people," said President Obama in ...