Berkeley report tallies costs of justice system errors

Rebecca Silbert quoted in Daily Journal (registration required), March 9, 2016

Silbert said she found some information startling, especially “the sheer number of days in prison that we counted—over 2,000 years. The degree to which we were paying for unsustainable convictions was surprising.”

City Visions: Making the case for a second transbay rail crossing

Ethan Elkind hosts KALW-FM, March 7, 2016

“With the Bay Area’s population growing at a rapid pace and increasing numbers of residents choosing public transportation, how long before the current transportation infrastructure reaches a breaking point? … Is the time ripe for such a significant undertaking?

HB2: The wolf in sheep’s clothing driving women away from clinical abortion care in Texas

Jill Adams writes for American Constitution Society Blog, March 4, 2016

Justice Breyer correctly points out that excessive restrictions on abortion provision limit clinic access and increase the necessity for self-administered abortion care. Global data have consistently demonstrated that highly restrictive laws do not reduce the abortion rate, they simply relocate the site of abortion care from the hospital to the home.

Scalia’s blind spot

john a. powell writes for HuffPost Politics, March 4, 2016

Justice Scalia’s full-throated embrace of originalism had a convenient blind spot. He ignored the fact that there were, at least, two different Constitutions.