Midnight Deregulation
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2012
ISBN
9780817385934
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
Presidential transitions are exciting and perilous. How the President-elect will make the transition from candidate to Chief Executive of the most powerful country on Earth is unknown and essentially unknowable until it happens. Even under ordinary circumstances the transition is an emotional time, with the new President’s supporters hopeful and excited and the defeated candidate’s supporters disappointed and anxious. For many reasons, these emotions were magnified in 2009 when Barack Obama assumed the presidency. On the one hand, the outpouring of emotion at the inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President made this the most eagerly anticipated transition since the election of John F. Kennedy. On the other hand, perhaps fueled by extreme rhetoric during the campaign that questioned Obama’s patriotism and status as an American citizen, Barack Obama’s skeptics appeared more anxious over his ascendancy than the opposition had been to any President in living memory.
Recommended Citation
Jack M. Beermann,
Midnight Deregulation
,
in
Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings
17
(2012).
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