Legal Eagle Wedding Watch (Bonus Edition): Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein Get Hitched
Back in May, we broke the news of the engagement of celebrity professors Cass Sunstein and Samantha Power. Both are Harvard-trained lawyers and high-profile advisers -- current in Sunstein's case, and former in Power's case (see Monstergate) -- to fellow HLS grad Barack Obama.
In the fall, Professor Sunstein will be teaching law at Harvard, where Professor Power teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. His relationship with Power reportedly played a major role in his decision to leave the University of Chicago, his longtime home in legal academia.
If you doubted our original report about the Power-Sunstein engagement, your doubts were misplaced. It's now official. From the Irish Independent:
The man who brought them together was unavoidably detained elsewhere. Barack Obama has the small matter of a US presidential campaign to fight.[On Friday], a world away in rain-lashed Co Kerry, two of his friends tied the knot. The wind blew and the rain poured down but it could not spoil a very special Fourth of July for Samantha Power.
Obama's former adviser married Professor Cass Sunstein in Mary Immaculate Church, on the edge of the sea at Loher near Waterville, Co Kerry.
Irish-American academic and writer Samantha (38) arrived for her marriage to the 54-year-old law professor at the church in the parish of Caherdaniel, the home turf of 19th century politician, the Liberator Daniel O'Connell.
The couple met while working on the Obama presidential campaign.
The celebrated Sunstein and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Power are boldface names, and the person who brought them together is probably going to be the next President of the United States. But because their nuptials were not featured in the august pages of the New York Times -- we wonder why they didn't submit themselves (because they would have made the cut if they had) -- Power and Sunstein are not eligible for consideration in the next installment of Legal Eagle Wedding Watch.
But we obviously could not let their wedding go unremarked. Hence this special report, which you can think of as "LEWW Supp."
More details, after the jump.
Still from the Independent:
Ms Power arrived on the button of 4.30pm in a champagne coloured Lexus car bedecked with silk roses and hydrangeas driven by her uncle, Garry Horgan, from Cork.
A Lexus -- quite nice. But was it a hybrid?
Waiting a respectable five minutes until she got the nod from parish priest Fr Fergal Ryan, Ms Power in her cream all-lace dress and veil resplendent against her red hair, entered the church on the arm of her step-father Edmund Bourke.
We're sure she was a vision. As noted in our prior coverage, Professor Power is quite the hottie. Not many Harvard profs have had pictorials in Men's Vogue.
There were thank-you notes in the wedding leaflet for local organisers and a special word for 18-year-old Ellyn Ruddick-Sunstein the daughter of the groom for providing support and cheer "and for approving".Prayers of the faithful included one "for the victims of cruelty and injustice, for those who protect wildlife and animals, and those who are poor and persecuted".
Like Hillary Clinton, whom Power famously called "a monster," and who has been relentlessly attacked by both the left and the right over the years? [FN1]
Setting politics aside -- which is hard to do, in such a big election year -- ATL sends its congratulations and best wishes to Samantha Power and Cass Sunstein. They're a well-matched pair, in terms of their brilliance, fabulosity, and abiding love of country. We look forward to seeing the heights to which they will ascend, together, in the administration of President Obama.
[FN1] Okay, the Clintons aren't exactly "poor" -- a nine-figure gross income in eight years lies well above the poverty line. But even her detractors can't deny that HRC has been harshly treated, by Republicans and Democrats alike, as well as by the media and the blogosphere..
From campaigns to champagne as friends of Obama tie the knot [Independent (Ireland)]
(52) Comments
First!
First......... to say that Cass Sunstein is a douchebag of epic proportions!
Legal douche wedding watch - yeah!
I know that most lawyers are ugly, but if you consider Professor Power a "hottie," I am truly appalled by the state of our profession.
p.s. FIRST!
I'm sad that he won't be teaching at UChicago in the fall. I was hoping to have him. I heard he was an incredible teacher.
Best of luck to him! This is great news, right?
babies!
this is not just a slow news day but a no-news day.
mccain for prez!
Who in their right mind names their baby boy Cass???
they were forced to add the prefix "a"
who the hell cares? we want more substantive legal profession gossip and rumours. you don't need to cover the wedding like a poof.
They didn't even get married in this country? How can they claim to love this country so much? Maybe they made their wedding plans before Michelle Obama said it was ok.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25569942/
More coverage of this landmark case, please.
I can't wait to hear about the Power-Sunroof wedding on Leno.
I hope they had good pre-cana instruction.
http://www.gettingmarried.ie/pages/index.php?nd=6
They might be the featured wedding in next week's NYTs. Those often appear a week after the fact.
I don't think Fr. Ryan would've given her more than 5 mins.
http://www.dioceseofkerry.ie/pages/parish/Caherdaniel.htm
"Let us pray for the poor," said the liberal elitist, as she exited her Lexus to arrive at her County Kerr, Ireland, wedding.
"Wildlife and animals"? Are wildlife not animals?
Why an Irish Catholic wedding, with all of its liturgical gibberish and mystical mumbo jumbo? Is Power planning to run for Kennedy's seat? It was a great mistake to give Catholics the right to vote, by the way. Daniel O'Connell is one of history's villains. The UK has never recovered.
why is this story at the top of the blog when another demented Boston fan from Cape Cod attacked a man with a baseball bat because he had New York license plates?
Ewww. Just ewww.
1:17 - Um uh, maybe because that doesn't really involve the law.
So Lat's finally given up on his party's chances of staying in the White House, eh?
martha nussabum is out there somewhere, seething.
1:19 Something tells me he'll be charged with a crime for breaking the law and then some lawyer will prosecute him while another lawyer defends him in front of a judge. Haven't you ever seen Law & Order?
Boston sucks.
Viacom v Google
AROD v CROD
Partnership contribution article
USNews changes - whiny deans - complaining leiters
DO IT
"Prayers of the faithful included one "for the victims of cruelty and injustice, for those who protect wildlife and animals and those who are poor and persecuted"." - presumably followed by "Kumbaya" performed by the South Side Children's Choir...
Wasn't there a prior marriage for one of these folks, which should have required a Kennedy-esque annulment for a marriage int he Romac Catholic Church?
Lets hope they are too old, or self-absorbed, to procreate.
1:23 - That's obvious. What I meant is that no one cares.
1:24: absolutely. Why haven't we seen these stories?
who cares?
why do we care? moreover, why does Lat care? I am (mildly) sympathetic to star fuckers (although disgusted by it, nonetheless) but this legal star fuckery is just stupid.
Having the wedding in Ireland must have created a huge carbon footprint.
Pompous asses.
Love the Indo shout out on ATL.
Here's some more: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/samantha-power-the-triumph-and-sadness-of-emigration-1386452.html
1.15, I know you are a troll, but still you are a fucking twat.
Hillary, was treated much better by the media than George W. Bush or than McCain is currently being treated (when McCain was criticizing Republicans he was the media's favorite Republican).
Cass Sunstein, is a highly overrated as a public intellectual. Luckily, he will get to mentor another highly overrated intellectual at Harvard, Noah Feldman. Both of them are pretty standard liberal Democrats who have nothing to offer in terms of insights or analysis on the current state of politics. Everytime, I end up reading Feldman in the NY Times or Sunstein in TNR, I come away wondering how on earth they achieved so much in the legal profession.
1:03 exactly my thought when i read this b.s.
these are just two "righteous" libs getting married who the hell gives a damn. and yes martha nusssbaum must be seething, but at least now she sees what type of man her ex really is.
Lat, is a legal blogger, I, read his blog, evertime. Frat stud, is whose comments I admire, most. The LOLcat pictures, are also one of my favorites.
so obama breaks up marriages and then marries them off to other loyals?!
Granted, the post is less than thrilling. But that is no excuse for the fact that this is the worst comments thread ever. Get in there and purge the nonsense, Lat.
2:19, you're an idiot. Cass is hardly your typical liberal democrat. He (and seemingly he alone) buys into Bush's all powerful executive theory of the constitution. He also supported the appointments of Roberts and Alito.
Conservatives now a days think everyone to the left of John Yoo is a "typical liberal democrat."
In an Obama administration, all Americans will be entitled to ditch their wives and longtime girlfriends and take up with the leggy redheads of their choice.
How is it that these two don't have a power couple name yet? If Feldsuk got its own name, then surely the Sunstein Power combo merits one as well. I recommend "Sunpower" and "Powerstein". Either would be fine.
-Chicago 2L
3:06, do some research or a quick google search. Sunstein never publicly supported Alito and his support of Roberts was only based on the premise that Democrats could do worse. Moreover, many doctronaire conservative professors (the few that exist) supported Ginsburg and Breyer (in fact, typically most opposition party members support the President's nomination). That does not change the fact that they are pretty standard conservatives or that Sunstein is a pretty conventional liberal.
Your reasoning, research, and logic are shoddy. A professor who writes, "Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America," is a pretty standard liberal. Whether you recognize it or not.
The real moral of the story: If he won't marry you after X years, he's just not that into you (and will likely run off and marry someone else 16 years younger when/if he gets the chance). So much for life "partnership." Sigh. All of these breakups for younger women get depressing after awhile.
ewwwwwwwwww.
Young moderately attractive intellectual marries old, gross intellectual.
ewwwwwwwww.
That is awesome. Sunstein's romantic voyages map pretty well with the declining robustness of his scholarship. At what should be the peak of his scholarly potency, he spends his time bedding and wedding the fairer sex. I hope he's happy with his choice - his intellectual legacy (if he ever had one) is suffering for it.
Re a power couple name: I like Sunster.
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Friday, July 18, 2008 12:22 PM
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Monday, July 7, 2008 7:18 PM
That is awesome. Sunstein's romantic voyages map pretty well with the declining robustness of his scholarship. At what should be the peak of his scholarly potency, he spends his time bedding and wedding the fairer sex. I hope he's happy with his choice - his intellectual legacy (if he ever had one) is suffering for it.
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You're absolutely right!! It is much more fun to spend half your adult life, sitting in a library, collecting cobwebs, in pursuit of an intellectual "legacy" to impress strangers. God forbid people seek a little balance in life, lest they be portrayed as intellectual "sellouts".
Posted by guest
Friday, July 18, 2008 12:22 PM
Posted by guest | Permalink
Monday, July 7, 2008 7:18 PM
That is awesome. Sunstein's romantic voyages map pretty well with the declining robustness of his scholarship. At what should be the peak of his scholarly potency, he spends his time bedding and wedding the fairer sex. I hope he's happy with his choice - his intellectual legacy (if he ever had one) is suffering for it.
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You're absolutely right!! It is much more fun to spend half your adult life, sitting in a library, collecting cobwebs, in pursuit of an intellectual "legacy" to impress strangers. God forbid people seek a little balance in life, lest they be portrayed as intellectual "sellouts".
How about Powerass as their celeb couple moniker?
How about "Casper" as their celeb couple moniker?
Granted it brings up images of "the friendly ghost," for some oldsters, but it also brings up "Casper Weinberger," the pardoned elder Bushcrook. Seeing as Sunny Delight is espousing the idea that Bushcrooks ought to be treated with kid gloves lest we "criminalize politics," it seems a fitting appellation.
eh?
Last!
Wow, I remember the day Ellyn was born like it was yesterday. Cass taught an entire class and then apologized at the end that he was a little distracted today b/c his wife was in labor. Forget Martha, what ever happened to the wife?