Anne Joseph O’Connell quoted in Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2015

“A lot of times conservatives are less likely to grant standing,” she said, as the 5th Circuit refused to in the recent Mississippi case, reaffirming the similarly conservative lower court’s denial of standing.

Anne O’Connell quoted in Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2015

“A lot of times conservatives are less likely to grant standing,” she said, as the 5th Circuit refused to in the recent Mississippi case, reaffirming the similarly conservative lower court’s denial of standing.

Anne O’Connell interviewed by Reuters, February 18, 2015

O’Connell said it was hard to predict how the appeals court would rule in the end, although she thought it was likely the court would lift Hanen’s temporary injunction and allow the Obama administration to begin putting its program in place.

Anne Joseph O’Connell interviewed for Fox Ten O’Clock News, November 21, 2014

The statutes from Congress do give the president, in a variety of circumstances, discretion in terms of enforcement. And that’s what President Obama is relying on.

Anne Joseph O’Connell quoted in California Lawyer, November 2014

“Predictive coding should be given careful consideration in a case like this,” she said, “and I am absolutely happy to endorse the use of predictive coding and to require that it be used as part of the discovery tools available to the parties.”

Anne Joseph O’Connell quoted in ABA Journal, November 1, 2013

But there are many drags other than pure politics, O’Connell says. For example, government has grown so large that the White House Office of Presidential Personnel sometimes is swamped and doesn’t move fast enough. And turnover is high: Top-level people, such as Cabinet members, leave after about three years, and their assistants or undersecretaries average two years, O’Connell says.

Anne Joseph O’Connell cited in Tampa Bay Times, July 19, 2013

With the guidance of Anne Joseph O’Connell, associate dean at the University of California-Berkeley Law, we searched the nominations database at the Library of Congress. We found that the Senate has confirmed 68 of Obama’s nominees. By this point in the 109th Congress, the Senate had confirmed 129 of Bush’s nominees, nearly twice as many.

Anne Joseph O’Connell writes for The Washington Post, July 19, 2013

Our Constitution says presidents must execute laws passed by Congress. But what if the Senate won’t approve the people supposed to do the executing? A stalemate over this quandary ended this past week when Senate Democrats and Republicans struck a deal to confirm some of President Obama’s stalled nominees to agencies such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But before we move on from this crisis, let’s tackle some misunderstandings about presidential appointments.

Anne Joseph O’Connell quoted in CBS News, May 21, 2013

With time, the numbers are only getting worse, O’Connell told CBSNews.com: The Obama administration has been relatively slow to announce nominees, and the confirmation process has grown slower. “Both the White House and the Senate need to move faster,” she said. “We have a country to govern and few people to do it.”

Anne Joseph O’Connell quoted in ProPublica, March 5, 2013

There’s also a potential upside to having the president appoint board members to minor boards and commissions, said Anne Joseph O’Connell, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied presidential appointments. The positions are often part-time and don’t pay much. But if appointees get a call from the White House, O’Connell said, they might be more willing to serve.