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Cass Sunstein

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Attorney

The Resume

    (September 21, 1954- )
    Born in Concord, Massachusetts
    President Barack Obama's 'regulatory czar'
    Taught law at the University of Chicago for 27 years
    Graduated from Harvard and Harvard Law Magna Cum Laude
    Author of over a dozen books, including Risk and Reason, The Second Bill of Rights and Nudge: Inspiring Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Why he might be annoying:

    He's a lawyer.
    He favors government regulation of the internet.
    He favors 'libertarian paternalism' and 'choice architecture': that is people like him should help less enlightened people like the rest of us make the right choices for their lives.
    He believes that animals should be entitled to attorneys and the federal government should regulate farms to ensure animal rights.
    The University of Chicago named a scholarship after his dog.
    He believes that people should be happy to pay taxes.
    He believes that the Bill of Rights should be retooled so that the government can force people to examine different ideas.
    He believes that unless a person explicitly rejects organ donation that the government should be able to harvest his or her organs even over the family's objections.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He favors judicial minimalism, that is the courts, especially the Supreme Court should generally keep the scope of their decisions very narrowly focused.
    He has helped many countries, including Ukraine, Russia, South Africa and China, develop new constitutions.
    He was a clerk for Thurgood Marshall.
    He's really, really smart.
    He obviously has a tremendous work ethic.
    Literally everyone who knows him describes him as likable and fun to know and work with.

Credit: tom_jeffords


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 15 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 67 Votes: 55.22% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 89 Votes: 55.06% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 62 Votes: 46.77% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 107 Votes: 47.66% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 127 Votes: 56.69% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 659 Votes: 81.03% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 112 Votes: 65.18% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 209 Votes: 53.59% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 106 Votes: 54.72% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 109 Votes: 65.14% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 157 Votes: 78.34% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 1088 Votes: 88.79% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 883 Votes: 71.01% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 99 Votes: 74.75% Annoying