Saul to become the next Commissioner of Social Security. [read post]

A previous blog post reported that congressional Democrats are urging Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul to withdraw a proposed rule that would allow Administrative Appeals Judges (AAJs) to conduct retirement and disability hearings in place of some Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) even though the AAJs do not have the same experience and qualifications as ALJs. [read post]

  When that is combined with the positive obligations at the heart of compliance based administrative cultures, one can see both the allure and the inevitability of both an administrative and legal infatuation with the possibilities of managing behavior through the imposition of non-negotiable institutional positive obligations of one sort or another. [read post]