Ian Haney López writes for Moyers and Company, October 7, 2014
In June, Obama recognized that continued mass deportation has “meant the heartbreak of separated families.” Dog whistling on the right is responsible for much of this heartbreak. But fault also lies with the Obama administration’s repeated decisions to defer and delay acting unilaterally, for the last six years, and now for a few more months, at least.
John Yoo debates on Intelligence Squared, October 7, 2014
After 9/11 … we decided this would be a reasonable thing to do to try to find any more terrorists coming to the United States: by looking at phone numbers of people from abroad calling into the United States and what those phone numbers called—to try to detect patterns of enemy agents trying to infiltrate into the United States. That’s the purpose of the program.
Catherine Crump writes for CNN.com, October 6, 2014
NSA-style mass surveillance technologies are making it possible for local police departments to gather information on each and every one of us, on a scale never before been possible.
Steven Davidoff Solomon and David Zaring write for The New York Times, October 2, 2014
Parsing what the United States District Court did in the Fannie and Freddie litigation offers a window into the ways in which the government’s conduct during that crisis might finally be evaluated.
John Yoo quoted in Newsmax, October 2, 2014
“In Iraq … we are protecting our own national security against the terrorist group—the one that has said openly that wants to take actions against us and launch attacks on our homeland,” he said. “If this terrorist group is in Syria too, the U.S. has the right to pursue them. This was the thing that the Bush administration’s critics like President Obama were jumping up and down screaming about after the Iraq invasion.”
Catherine Crump cited in San Jose Mercury News, October 2, 2014
“It’s heartening to see a major American company conclude that it’s a business advantage to protect its users’ privacy and security,” Catherine Crump told technology news site Ars Technica. “Two years ago that would have been unheard of, and it suggests that there is real momentum building behind the idea that the government’s grabs of privately held data have gone too far.”
David Carrillo quoted in Daily Journal (registration required), Judicial Profile, October 2, 2014
“He’s hardly the liberal firebrand or radical academic some may have expected”” said David Carrillo. … “His writing takes reasonable positions, and shows careful analysis tempered by pragmatism and common sense.”
Jesse Choper interviewed on Bloomberg, October 2, 2014
The intent of the law was to stop racial segregation. The question is, how do you determine whether discrimination is deliberate or not? That’s a pretty subtle question and it very often turns on who has the burden of proving that.
Catherine Crump quoted in The Washington Times, October 1, 2014
“It’s disappointing that today’s decision lets law enforcement agents off the hook in a broader range of circumstances,” said Catherine Crump … who argued the case in May for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Catherine Crump quoted in The Washington Times, October 1, 2014
“It’s disappointing that today’s decision lets law enforcement agents off the hook in a broader range of circumstances,” said Catherine Crump … who argued the case in May for the American Civil Liberties Union.