"Koch Brothers Growing Control Extends to 16 Federal Departments [...] Neomi Rao, Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs Administrator: Ms. Rao is the Administration’s regulatory czar, directing an office of some 50 officials and reporting to another Koch Brothers’s favorite, Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Rao will outline the deregulation plan for each federal agency. She had been a professor at George Mason University’s law school for 11 years when she was selected in Sept. 2015 to create GMU’s Center for the Study of the Administrative State. GMU’s recently renamed Antonin Scalia School of Law is by far the largest academic benefactor of Koch charitable funding, receiving more than $46 million total since 2005."
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By Nation Action
Today 5:32 pm
Neomi Rao, Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, smiles as President Donald Trump announces his intention to nominate her to fill a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in the White House on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci)
President Trump has nominated Neomi Rao, a hard-right judge, to take Brett Kavanaugh’s seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In addition to accusing LGBT youth of following a “trend” and claiming welfare is for the “lazy,” Rao has demonstrated extreme hostility to survivors of sexual assault.