Trump’s Harvard Law School: George Mason University

By Sara Merken, Bloomberg BNA

Securities and Exchange Commission nominee Hester Peirce is just the latest George Mason University affiliate to fill a key regulatory position in the Trump administration.

Trump has selected six top officials from the suburban Virginia’s law school renamed last year in honor of the conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after his death and its Mercatus Center. Mercatus promotes itself on its website as the “world’s premier university source for market-oriented ideas.”

That’s the same number of faculty former President Barack Obama had nominated at roughly the same point in his tenure from Harvard Law ...