Steven Weissman quoted in Daily Journal (registration required), April 30, 2015
The decision will have a broader effect beyond the California dispute as it will force FERC to subject wholesale energy sales across the country to more scrutiny, said Steven Weissman.
Richard Rothstein writes for History News Network, April 29, 2015
It was not a vague white society that created ghettos but government—federal, state, and local—that employed explicitly racial laws, policies, and regulations to ensure that black Americans would live impoverished, and separately from whites. Baltimore’s ghetto was not created by private discrimination, income differences, personal preferences, or demographic trends, but by purposeful action of government in violation of the Fifth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
Kenneth Bamberger quoted in Daily Journal (registration required), April 28, 2015
The event, which kicked off Monday, comes at a “profoundly relevant time” because the last remaining Holocaust survivors and Nazis will likely all be dead within a decade, said Kenneth Bamberger. … “Soon there will be physically no one left to talk about this major crime.”
Elisabeth Semel quoted in Daily Journal (registration required), April 28, 2015
“It’s important to be cautious about talking of a sea change at the Supreme Court, but in the broader view there is a very concrete acknowledgement that it’s important to explore how influenced jurors are by arguments that defendants will be a danger. This issue of future dangerousness if the defendant is not put to death is on the minds of jurors, and the court is really underscoring how decisive that argument can be.”
Sarah Lawrence interviewed by KQED-FM, April 27, 2015
“We looked at a few years of data after the Fit Zones had started and looked at the levels of shootings in the city overall—in the two areas that have Fit Zones. Then we compared it to some places that did not have Fit Zones. We found that there was actually a statistically significance decline in shootings after the introduction of Fit Zones.”
James Rule writes for Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2015
You don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist to foresee a Faustian bargain—consent to a totally monitored world—emerging from these trends. Our greatest concern should not be unauthorized access to our data, but access by interests rightfully entitled to exploit any data known to exist.
Megan McCracken and Jennifer Moreno write for The National Law Journal, April 27, 2015
To the extent the states’ actions can be explained by a common denominator, it is expediency. The actual “earnest desire” at work is not a more humane manner of death, but a different goal: to carry out executions without disruption. States design their execution procedures based on which drugs are available, not serious medical or scientific inquiry.
Megan McCracken quoted in The New York Times, April 26, 2015
“This is an opportunity for the court to prevent other states from adopting a drug that has been so problematic,” Ms. McCracken said.
Barry Krisberg quoted in Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2015
Barry Krisberg … said the alternative justice lobby is unlikely to affect lawmakers’ votes on criminal penalties. “The politicians are still pretty frightened about crossing the law enforcement unions.”
Franklin Zimring and Barry Krisberg cited in UT San Diego, April 24, 2015
Zimring: Because of prison realignment (to county jails) and other policies in response to federal prison overcrowding orders, California has undertaken “a pretty substantial experiment in decarceration,” he added, and yet crime just keeps falling.
Krisberg says many Republicans—typically leaders of the law-and-order coalition—now often back changes that help reduce costs and incarceration rates, even as some Democrats oppose them because of their closeness to the prison guards and police unions.