Eno Center for Transportation reports that President Trump this week nominated Jonathan Morrison, a lawyer, to be administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Before serving as NHTSA chief counsel for three years during the first Trump administration, Morrison was a legal and regulatory affairs executive for the California New Car Dealers Association. Between leaving NHTSA and accepting the administrator nomination, he worked for Apple.
Eno’s article includes an interesting observation about Trump’s second-term nominations: “For at least the last 60 years, the White House would issue a press release when the President nominated someone, or announced his intention to nominate someone, and that press release would include a few paragraphs of biographical data about the nominee. This White House doesn’t do that.”