AP at TalkLeft:

_ Judge Ruben Castillo of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

_ Judge Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

_ Gov. Jennifer Granholm of Michigan.

_ U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, a former Harvard University law professor.

_ Pam Karlan, a professor at Stanford Law School.

_ Harold Koh, a Yale University law professor recently nominated to serve as legal adviser at the State Department.

_ Judge Margaret McKeown of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

_ Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts.

_ Judge Johnnie Rawlinson of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

_ Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.

_ Kathleen Sullivan, former dean of Stanford Law School.

_ Cass Sunstein, a Harvard University law professor recently nominated to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

_ Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

_ Judge Diane Wood of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.

I note with extreme displeasure the presence of torture enabler and executive power tool Cass Sunstein. But come on.

I went to the University of Chicago when Cass was all over the place, so this is more or less what I already knew. Nice to hear it from someone else, and so esteemed a blogger as Matt.

I'll leave you with a quote from Sunstein and Thaler from page 253, which could have been ripped from Jimmy Carter, Gary Hart in the 1980s, Bill Clinton in 1992, or Barack Obama today.

Ever since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, the Democratic Party has shown a great deal of enthusiasm for rigid national requirements and for command-and-control regulations. Having identified serious problems in the private market, Democrats have often insisted on firm mandates, typically eliminating or at least reducing freedom of choice. Republicans have responded that such mandates are often uninformed or counterproductive - and that in light of the sheer diversity of Americans, one size cannot possibly fit all. Much of the time, they have argued on behalf of laissez-faire and against government intervention. At least with respect to the economy, freedom of choice has been their defining principle.

What else is there to say about this book except that Sunstein and Thaler think that the Republican Party is pro-choice?

Feel free to read the whole thing, it will turn your stomach. Matt essentially speaks for me, Cass sucks donkey dick and I'm not at all happy at his elevation, even as I expected nothing less from Obama.

This is an example of High Falutin SuperDuper Intellectualism advising the Obama campain. Is the man really that dumb? That is, does he truly fail to understand that naming a post "trimmers" that discusses reproductive and sexual rights places him squarely in the ass of many a joke? What a fool. The argument he makes there too is stupid. I guess young pregnant women don't deserve any rights because you know, they're too young to have sex but when they do and they get pregnant they can't be trusted to decide for themselves what to do about it, and anyway if Daddy's the Father he deserves to have another say in how to use her body Maturely, or something...

Just shoot me, please.

Cass Sunstein cautions against prosecuting criminal conduct from the current Administration. He thinks that Alito and Roberts are "minimalists."

Robert Bauer advocated pardoning Scooter Libby.

I have a very bad feeling about this.