Cass Sunstein

1 week ago - Cass Robert Sunstein (born September ... 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....

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.

May 19, 2023 - White House regulatory czar Cass Sunstein, an intellectual mentor to President Obama whose skeptical approach to rule-making frustated the president's liberal allies, announced Friday he was leaving his post.

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.

April 5, 2021 - Though he was a mild-mannered law professor at Harvard at the time this interview took place, Sunstein recently became director of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. With Sunstein in the role of President Obama’s “regulation czar,” Americans should prepare to get nudged.

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.

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 ...

March 3, 2019 - But now that Obama has named Sunstein to serve as his regulatory czar, environmentalists and labor activists are digging into his voluminous body of work -- and wondering what policies might emanate from a man so dedicated to calculating the ...

Cass Sunstein, who is an old friend of Barack Obama, is now our new Regulatory Czar.

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.

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 ...

Saxby Chambliss, July 14, 2009 Fox News, "Obama Regulatory Czar's Confirmation Held Up by Hunting Rights Proponent," July 22, 2009 White House, About OIRA, accessed June 12, 2011 Google Video, Facing Animals, Sunstein speaks at Harvard University ...

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.

August 3, 2012 - Jeffrey Zients, acting Obama director, will miss tossing a football around with Cass in the halls of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. “With regret and deep gratitude, I am announcing that Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator Cass Sunstein will be leaving OMB this month,” Zients said in a statement.

June 4, 2010 - President Obama’s regulatory czar says that incentives, not top-down regulation, can make us do the right thing — and that includes slowing climate change.

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 ...

Editor’s Note: On Friday, John Paul Stevens, the oldest justice on the Supreme Court and the leader of its liberal wing, announced he would retire this summer. The news immediately fueled speculation that President Barack Obama might nominate his friend and former University of Chicago colleague Cass Sunstein to the vacant seat. Sunstein is currently serving as Obama’s regulatory czar.

May 11, 2021 - Yesterday, the Obama camp announced that TNR contributing editor, prolific author, and Harvard Law professor Cass R. Sunstein will be the new adminisration's regulatory czar.