The Road to the Bench
Clark Neily, senior vice president for legal studies, testified in March before the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on courts about his research into the background experience of federal judges and the overrepresentation of former prosecutors and other advocates for the government. His study on this problem was also cited in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing by its chairman, Sen. Dick Durbin (D‑IL). In May, President Biden notably nominated three former public defenders to serve as federal appellate judges.
Recommended Reading
The Financial Times included Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19, by Ryan Bourne, R. Evan Scharf Chair for the Public Understanding of Economics at Cato, on its recommended summer reading list, compiled by Martin Wolf, the magazine’s chief economics commentator.
Islamic Freedom
Cato senior fellow Mustafa Akyol, whose work focuses on freedom in the Muslim world, was selected by the UK’s Prospect Magazine as one of “The World’s Top 50 Thinkers”—alongside Chinese entrepreneur Zhang Yiming, American entrepreneur Elon Musk, and Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny