Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University, writes at the Volokh Conspiracy that Obama regulatory czar Cass Sunstein is — surprise — a friend of regulation:
My own view is that pro-regulatory groups have little to fear from Sunstein’s confirmation. Whatever questions Sunstein may have raised about the desirability (or even constitutionality) of various regulatory programs, I cannot think of anything he has written that challenges the idea of an aggressive regulatory state. Sunstein’s administrative law expertise and analytical rigor is likely to translate into greater regulatory authority for this administration, particularly insofar as he is able to goad federal agencies to strengthen the analytical and legal justifications for their proposed regulatory initiatives. In this respect, Sunstein could make the Obama Administration’s regulatory initiatives more formidable and less vulnerable to judicial review, and that is an outcome I would think environmental activists and their allies would cheer.
That doesn’t sound like a man who is “in his own way, a supporter of liberty.”
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Aggressive regulatory state sounds like a triple redundancy to me.
Mises would have said “aggressive regulatory state” is pleonastic.
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