Fred Smith Jr. quoted by The New York Times, May 26, 2017
“There are a few people who have been very effective in branding the left at shutting down free speech, but the moment they are confronted with leftist speech they don’t like, they are equally outraged and poised to suppress that speech,” he said. “I don’t think that’s the answer for either side.”
Fred Smith quoted by Sante Fe New Mexican, April 29, 2017
“If a judge is willing to take the time to have the hearing and put out a 193-page order, it’s sort of hard to imagine her coming out the other way down the line,” Smith said.
Fred Smith quoted in The New York Times, Oct. 23, 2015
“Now that federal courts are exposed to how bad things have gotten in so many jurisdictions, I think that federal judges are shocked and want to do something about it,” Mr. Smith said.
Fred Smith quoted in Athens Banner-Herald, June 30, 2013
“It’s important work so I’m willing to do whatever I’m asked,” Fred Smith, Jr. said. “My understanding is that at the Supreme Court level it is very demanding work because the justices expect their clerks to be hard workers, and our job is to do our best to make sure the justices’ views on the law are reflected.”
Fred Smith writes for San Francisco Chronicle, June 30, 2012
The precise metes and bounds of Roberts’ new restriction on congressional power are undefined for now. But one thing is clear. This opinion represents the first time the court has so evidently given itself the power to invalidate laws because they were not “proper.”
San Francisco Chronicle, December 29, 2011 by Bob Egelko
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-12-29/news/30567772_1_abortion-rights-decisions-law-professors-rulings
If Congress passed a law prohibiting abortions and barring all judicial review, “it’s highly, highly unlikely that the Supreme Court would find such a law constitutional,” said Fred Smith, who teaches law at UC Berkeley. “There are so many avenues of review” for the case to reach the high court, he said.
American Banker, December 22, 2011 by Kate Berry and Jeff Horwitz
http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/176_247/preemption-fannie-freddie-fhfa-
kamala-harris-1045105-1.html (registration required)
Smith notes that the Housing Economic Recovery Act, which placed the GSEs in conservatorship, only said that states would have no authority over the FHFA – not the GSEs. “If you look at the language, the FHFA’s position that states don’t have any authority over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is a bit of a jump,” he says.