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Hostile to the administrative state?

From The New Rambler, Adrian Vermeule reviews The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940 by Daniel R. Ernst. Jeffrey S. Lubbers (American): Is the U.S. Supreme Court Becoming Hostile to the Administrative State? David S. Rubenstein (Washburn): Administrative Federalism as Separation of Powers. Jon D. Michaels (UCLA): Of Constitutional Custodians and Regulatory Rivals: An Account of the Old and New Separation of Powers. Eric Posner (Chicago): Presidential Leadership and the Separation of Powers. Cass Sunstein (Harvard): The Most Knowledgeable Branch. Julian Arato (Brooklyn): Deference to the Executive: The US Debate in Global Perspective. Is America heading toward dictatorship? Presidents have more power today, but there are good historical reasons for the trend. Regulation deadlines created by Congress are meaningless, report says. “Everything is a workaround”: Lydia DePillis on life in Obama’s agencies as Congress does nothing. Cynthia R. Farina (Cornell) and Gillian E. Metzger (Columbia): The Place of Agencies in Polarized Government. Christopher J. Walker (OSU): Inside Agency Interpretation. Jordan Tama (American): The Politics of Strategy: Why Government Agencies Conduct Major Strategic Reviews. Hail to the pencil pusher: Mike Konczal on American bureaucracy’s long and useful history.