Sigh, another thread that could have been informative has wandered into a petty irrelevancies. So I imagine this will be the last comment on topic.
She is a great choice, quite stunning. Currently she coordinates the administrations regulatory agenda, in effect being the regulatory czar. Previously she was a prof at George Mason's Antonin Scalia Law School, who founded the school's Center for the Study of the Administrative State. Reputedly she sponsored conferences and workshops on admin and regulatory policy, with a wide selection of ideological views.
Prior to that she was the White House Counsel's office during the Bush Administration, worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, and in private practice. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School, she clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson and Justice Clarence Thomas. She has also served as a Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and on the Governing Council of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and co-chair of the Section's Regulatory Policy Committee.
Her supporters, such as law prof and blogger Johnathan Adler (and Eugene Volokh) say she has a first-rate intellect and a high degree of intellectual independence. He is confident that as a judge she would follow the law, as she understands it, and not worry about whether a given outcome was consistent with a particular political agenda or "party line."
Good enough for me!
