Catherine Crump writes for The Washington Post, Dec. 15, 2017
The current system encourages women to put up with bad behavior or forego certain opportunities rather than insist on fair and equitable treatment. … Whether these clerkships are structured in a way that allows women to thrive is important to the health of the legal profession.
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Los Angeles Times, Dec. 15, 2017
History shows such investigations, from Watergate to Whitewater, tend to linger and expand, sometimes for years. “They often took on a life on their own,” said Erwin Chemerinsky.
Mark Yudof quoted by The Independent, Dec. 14, 2017
“He is not anti-Palestinian; rather he is dedicated to non-discrimination and equal treatment of all students, including Jewish and Palestinian students. He strives for a campus climate that is respectful and free of intimidation.”
Erwin Chemerinsky writes for SCOTUS Blog, Dec. 12, 2017
Merely requiring clinics to post a notice informing women of the availability of free or low-cost reproductive health care services does not violate the First Amendment. In many different ways, health-care professionals are already required by law to provide information to patients so they can make informed choices.
Anne Joseph O’Connell quoted by Bloomberg Politics, Dec. 12, 2017
“For almost all positions, if you’re serving in violation of the Vacancies Act, anything that you do is void as a matter of law,” said Anne Joseph O’Connell.
Erwin Chemerinsky writes for The Sacramento Bee, Dec. 11, 2017
Every federal court of appeals to consider the issue has held that no warrant is required before police access cellular location information. These courts have relied on a legal principle called the “third party doctrine” – that we have no privacy interest in information that we share with a third party, such as a phone company.
Jonathan Simon quoted by ABC 7 News, Dec. 7, 2017
Professor Jonathan Simon said, “It wasn’t Berkeley, it was Alabama and Selma that got students from here going in the sixties and right now, it’s what’s happening to immigrants, what’s happening to young people color in our cities.”
Charles Denton quoted by Daily Journal (registration required), Dec. 7, 2017
Chuck Denton … said he doesn’t expect it to be difficult to find Garcia Zarate guilty of the charges considering there was never a question that he was a felon or in the country illegally. … “He was convicted in state court so that means something but whether it means the same in federal, it depends on the jury.”
Erwin Chemerinsky writes for The Sacramento Bee, Dec. 6, 2017
Such serious constitutional violations can be deemed “high crimes and misdemeanors.” But the legal standard and politics are not the same. Congress is partisan. … Whether politically it is desirable to pursue impeachment now, as Steyer urges, is a very different question from the legal one.
William Fernholz writes for The Hill, Dec. 6, 2017
When will we know who won the war? We’ll get a hint when the Fourth and Ninth Circuits decide the appeals, but it’s the Supreme Court that will probably determine the ultimate outcome. If nothing else, these two orders show that the Court is paying attention.