Jesse Choper quoted in USA Today, March 1, 2014
Jesse Choper … says if any reasonable student can conclude that what they did was something MIT was encouraging, the administration must back him up. “The university is legally—if not morally and ethically—obligated to support him,” Choper says.
Jesse Choper quoted in The Recorder, February 14, 2014 (subscription required)
Liu’s selection “is a very good template for guessing who he’s looking for,” said UC Berkeley law professor Jesse Choper. “It’s clear that he’s looking for someone who’s very smart and very thoughtful.… I think he’s going to look for a moderate liberal, maybe like Joyce Kennard.”
Kristin Luker and Jesse Choper quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, November 10, 2013
Access to contraception is also part of “the politics of marriage,” said Kristin Luker…. An employer’s refusal to allow birth-control coverage for female employees amounts to “a symbolic statement (promoting) the idea that women should properly be at home with their families, that motherhood is the most important job for women,” Luker said.
What’s more, said Jesse Choper, a constitutional law professor at Berkeley and a former Supreme Court clerk, the court ruled in 1990 that the government can enforce a neutrally drafted, generally applicable law “even though it interferes with religious beliefs”—in that case, an American Indian’s belief in the ritual use of peyote.
Jesse Choper quoted in Deseret News, October 8, 2013
Jesse Choper, public law professor at Berkeley Law at the University of California Berkeley, said many of these cases are unpredictable. “You just don’t know which way they’re going to go,” he said. “But the majority of the cases (the court usually takes) are to reverse decisions.”
Jesse Choper quoted in National Public Radio, August 28, 2013
“The Constitution doesn’t give me any quick answer to this,” says Jesse Choper, who teaches constitutional law at the University of California, Berkeley. “It does say that Congress shall have the power to declare war. Well, the president would say, ‘I am not declaring war. I am simply implementing foreign policy.'”
Jesse Choper and Robert Berring quoted in The Daily Californian, August 19, 2013
Edley redefined Boalt’s financial model and raised “unheard of” amounts of money, according to former Berkeley Law dean and current professor Jesse Choper. He also expanded the faculty and modernized the school’s facilities. “Transformative is one of those overused, trendy words, but that’s what his work was — transformative,” Choper said.
“He came from high-level politics and brought incredible energy and vision,” said Berkeley Law professor Robert Berring.
Jesse Choper and Stephen Sugarman quoted in The Christian Science Monitor, July 3, 2013
“Just because the Ten Commandments condemn murder and theft doesn’t make laws prohibiting murder a violation of church and state,” says Jesse Choper, a constitutional scholar at the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. “McGowan v. Maryland saved a lot of other religious-looking laws.”
The San Diego case is not the first time a court has rejected a legal claim that teaching yoga in the public schools violates the First Amendment prohibition of the establishment of religion by government, says UC Berkeley law professor Stephen Sugarman…. What is termed yoga can be delivered as a form of healthful exercise and breathing, in effect, as part of the physical education program, he says. “That is what the judge decided here.”
Jesse Choper quoted in POLITICO, June 27, 2013
“I would be very surprised, and underline the word very, if he were to hold that a prohibition on gay marriage is unconstitutional. If he didn’t join the DOMA case, I don’t think he’s willing to go farther,” said Jesse Choper of the University of California/Berkeley Law School.
Jesse Choper quoted in Ventura County Star, June 26, 2013
“We don’t know what the future of gay marriage in the states is,” said Professor Jesse Choper of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. We are left with “strong hints,” he said, that if a state is willing to grant gays the right to marry, “then the federal government can’t come in and say, no we’re going to treat them differently.” But the opinions do not address what happens in states where there is no law allowing gays to marry.
Jesse Choper quoted in The Sacramento Bee, June 26, 2013
Jesse Choper, a professor of public law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, called it part of the “egalitarian revolution” that has been growing in the United States. “There’s a great increase in liberal attitudes, and it’s not just California. And efforts to stop it are being rejected,” said Choper. “It’s just a public attitude: Equality is viewed with much greater sympathy, and not only in race.”