Jennifer Granholm writes for CNN.com, Dec. 2, 2015
My deep fear is that if you win the GOP nomination, the general election will divide the nation more than by Democrats and Republicans: It will end up pitting entire segments of our population against one another based on race, religion, gender and more.
John Yoo and John Bolton write for Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 2015
On one side is international pressure to vest any climate deal with what international law considers to be binding legal force. On the other is the political difficulty, even the impossibility, of approving a climate treaty under our Constitution because of the need for approval by two-thirds of the Senate.
Steven Davidoff Solomon and Eugene Kontorovich write for The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1, 2015
The moral myopia and academic perversity of these boycotts have been widely discussed. Less well understood is that in many cases they also are illegal. Under corporate law, an organization, including a nonprofit, can do only what is permitted under the purposes specified in its charter.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Dec. 1, 2015
House Republicans are trying to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s attempt to regulate the $900 billion auto finance industry. It’s a political battle that just might lead to the end of the fledgling agency’s mission to regulate every nook and cranny of consumer finance.
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1, 2015
The criminal process remains a crude tool of Communist Party policy in China. The suppression of activists by the party-state continues with blatant repression of speech and conduct deemed dangerous to stability.
Taeku Lee writes for The New York Times, Nov. 30, 2015
On representativeness, the typical poll today successfully interviews fewer than 1 in 10 targeted respondents, with racial minorities, noncitizens and persons without college degrees among the underrepresented.
Franklin Zimring interviewed by NBC, Nov. 25, 2015
He doesn’t buy the argument that law enforcement and prosecutors lose control over contraband by handing it over to defense teams. “That’s an argument I really don’t understand unless federal law enforcement is telling you that they don’t trust local judges in local criminal courts,” Zimring said.
Ian Haney López interviewed by Rolling Stone, Nov. 23, 2015
“This is a sort of racism that is often hidden from even the intended audience — the people these politicians hope to mobilize through this discourse of fear,” Haney López says.
John Yoo interviewed by WSJ Video, Nov. 23, 2015
“What the Paris attacks showed and what the Mumbai attacks had shown before is that a small group of terrorists who can coordinate their actions and get into a major city with light arms can cause enormous death and destruction among civilian targets. What our government and intelligence agencies need to do is to have access in real time to the broadest database of communications possible.”
Elisabeth Semel interviewed by Daily Journal (registration required), Nov. 23, 2015
“I think the court was more generous with the prosecutor than I would have been … especially since the panel acknowledged that the prosecutor basically regurgitated the state court’s rank speculation as to why he might have struck the juror. It was as if the state court provided him a script.”