John Yoo writes for The New York Times, Feb. 6, 2017
Faced with President Trump’s executive orders suspending immigration from several Muslim nations and ordering the building of a border wall, and his threats to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement, even Alexander Hamilton, our nation’s most ardent proponent of executive power, would be worried by now.
John Yoo writes for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 5, 2017
In choosing Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court, Trump kept his campaign promise to replace Justice Antonin Scalia with a judicial conservative, though one with intriguing wrinkles. If Democrats reflexively try to defeat Gorsuch, they will only escalate the confirmation wars to a new level while guaranteeing an even more conservative Supreme Court.
Christopher Kutz writes for Boston Review, Feb. 3, 2017
Career civil servants, unlike political appointees, are supposed to implement the policies of a new administration, regardless of their personal political values. But the Trump administration is presenting many workers with job conditions they never imagined when they entered government service: doing their jobs may mean subverting the fundamental aims and values that brought them into public service in the first place.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Feb. 3, 2017
Snap has followed the natural evolution of this disenfranchisement, simply eliminating shareholder rights from the get-go. And this is not just about replicating the venture capital model, where founders get control but investors get board seats and veto rights over significant transactions. Here, Snap is not even giving crumbs.
Leti Volpp quoted by The Daily Californian, Feb. 3, 2017
Were UC Berkeley to refuse cooperation with ICE, the government could only withhold federal grants related to immigration enforcement, according to UC Berkeley School of Law professor Leti Volpp.
Leti Volpp interviewed by KQED-FM, The California Report, Feb. 3, 2017
“But in fact, when you look at the history of who’s been admitted, it still reflects very much the particular foreign affairs interests of the United States government.”
Ethan Elkind quoted by Colorlines, Feb. 2, 2017
“By removing these regulations, you’re removing protections for clean air, clean water,” said Ethan Elkind. … “It’s safe to say that every time you remove environmental protection, very often communities of color and disadvantaged communities are most at risk, because they’re closer to those industrial facilities that these regulations are designed to limit pollution and other harmful health effects from.”
Taeku Lee quoted by USA Today, Feb. 2, 2017
Taeku Lee … said he senses a similar nativist sentiment today that is driven by a mix of demographic changes, economic insecurity and anxieties about national security. “Today’s fantasied scourge of ‘aliens’ from south of the border and terrorists cloaked in the garb of refugees is the Yellow Peril of the late 19th and early 20th century,” Lee said.
Daniel Farber quoted by The Washington Post, Feb. 2, 2017
“Based on what we know so far, trying to stall Neil Gorsuch’s nomination seems wrong on principle. I say that as someone who fervently supported Merrick Garland and found the GOP blockade of his nomination appalling. It’s understandable that many Democrats think it would be only fair to return the same treatment. But I think it would be wrong.”
Ian Haney López quoted by International Business Times, Feb. 2, 2017
“Affirmative action for white men is not social repair. Affirmative action for white men is a stunt to mock the moral and social importance of integration and to increase social strife,” he said.