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Article snippet: The political news cycle is fast, and keeping up can be overwhelming. Trying to find differing perspectives worth your time is even harder. That’s why we have scoured the internet for political writing from the right and left that you might not have seen. Has this series exposed you to new ideas? Tell us how. Email us at ourpicks@nytimes.com. For an archive of all the Partisan Writing Roundups, check out Our Picks. Adam White in Notice & Comment: Mr. White, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, takes his readers through the legal reasoning that justifies President Trump’s appointment of Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Mr. White opens his argument by noting that President Barack Obama’s initial appointment of Richard Cordray as the bureau’s director was itself unconstitutional and that Mr. Cordray’s decision to name his deputy as his successor is yet another attempt to “undermine the lawful process for appointing C.F.P.B. leadership.” Read more » _____ Shannen W. Coffin in The Weekly Standard: The president has the law on his side, Mr. Coffin argues. While Democrats are likely to slow-walk the confirmation process for whomever Mr. Trump ultimately appoints, the president still has the constitutional authority to name an interim director, he says. Moreover, Mr. Coffin, a lawyer who has “represented clients affected by and opposed to C.F.P.B. regulation,” is eager for Mr. Mulvaney to begin rolling back what h... Link to the full article to read more