The ‘procedure fetish’: why the rules meant to make government work are breaking it (opens in new tab)

“It’s one more bottleneck in a string of bottlenecks that includes judicial review, the extraordinary rigors of the notice and comment process, endless public feedback … that makes it extremely difficult to do anything of any consequence.” ~ Nicholas Bagley, a law professor at the University of Michigan and one of the most important thinkers on why American government has become so mired in process.