Cass Sunstein confirmation : Stop Cass Sunstein

Cass Sunstein

Cass Sunstein confirmation for White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration is still a bone of contention. Cass Sunstein’s appointment to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs by Obama was blocked by Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). Chambliss objected to Sunstein’s 2004 book Animal Rights, in which he argued that attorneys should be permitted to sue for violations of existing animal protection laws, naming the animals as plaintiffs.

Cass R. Sunstein (born September 21, 1954) is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics. For 27 years, Sunstein taught at the University of Chicago Law School, where he continues to teach as the Harry Kalven Visiting Professor. Sunstein is currently Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Sunstein was to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration.

Cass Sunstein is one of the most regularly cited legal scholars and author / editor of more than a dozen of books. In fact Cass Sunstein has even published two books ever since he was nominated to run OIRA. The theoretical writings and speeches that have provided plenty of tools for conservative opponents to dig at Cass Sunstein. Check this website by conservative groups:

http://stopsunstein.com/