Career-staff leaks and judicial review check political appointees who ignore disclosed impacts

Evidence

Of course, political forces within the agency are always free to ignore that information or even to try to influence its substantive content. Their ability to do so, however, is less than might be assumed. A political appointee who ignores or confronts career staff often does so at her peril. Leaks by career staff to the national news media can seriously damage political careers, and internal staff memoranda critical of agency policy can readily lead to a judicial reversal of the final agency action once litigators subject the agency action to judicial review. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 396

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: 1970s Congress wrote ever-tighter statutory deadlines to curb presidential and EPA discretion. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 373; Career-staff leaks and congressional oversight forced Reagan’s anti-environment appointees to resign — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 535

Broader Connections

• Career-staff leaks and congressional oversight forced Reagan’s anti-environment appointees to resign #exemplifies (0.90) — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 535