Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by The Daily Californian, Dec. 5, 2017
“All ideas and views can be expressed, no matter how offensive,” Chemerinsky said at the event. “The campus (has) to find ways to create inclusivity that are consistent with that. The best remedy for speech we don’t like is more speech.”
Eric Stover quoted by The Jakarta Post, Dec. 5, 2017
“Terror has been everywhere and threatening our security,” he said, adding that to counter terrorism, human rights must be upheld. “In other words, torture should not be employed at any stage.”
John Yoo co-writes for The New York Times, Dec. 4, 2017
Unfortunately, the drama over the Flynn plea and White House tweeting continues to draw time and resources away from the Constitution’s one true answer for presidential corruption: impeachment and removal from office. If Mr. Trump has truly impeded a valid investigation, Congress should turn to impeachment, which allows for the removal of a president for “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Andrea Roth quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 4, 2017
“You have to show the error mattered — that it wasn’t harmless,” she said. In previous cases on appeal, Roth said, she’s argued an error wasn’t harmless by pointing to inconsistency in verdicts and suggesting the jury may have compromised — violating their instructions.
Jesse Choper quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 4, 2017
Another reason to protect a president from prosecution while in office is to avoid interfering with the president’s work as the nation’s leader, said Jesse Choper. … “A good argument can be made that (those protections) disappear when he’s left office.”
John Yoo quoted by The New York Times, Dec. 4, 2017
Todd Gaziano of the Pacific Legal Foundation and John Yoo of the University of California, Berkeley’s law school, have argued in opposition, saying that the power to create a monument “implicitly also includes the power of reversal.”
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by eNews Channel Africa, Dec. 4, 2017
“I do not think he wants to open that door,” Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of Berkeley Law and constitutional law expert, told AFP.
Lauren Edelman quoted by Los Angeles Times, Dec. 4, 2017
“Sometimes it takes a shock to the system before there are changes,” said Lauren Edelman, a law and sociology professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law who studies workplace culture. “Weinstein was the shock that got this thing going, and it has taken the form of a social movement.”
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Fox News, Dec. 3, 2017
Further, Chemerinsky notes that “even if this is about speech” that doesn’t mean the government can’t intercede. And in this case, “the interest in preventing discrimination outweighs” other interests. For instance, the baker would lose in court if he were “against interracial marriage and won’t bake a cake for an interracial couple.”
Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Leti Volpp quoted by The Daily Californian, Dec. 3, 2017
UC Berkeley School of Law professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig said in an email that to her knowledge, marrying for financial aid is not illegal and is “no different” from marrying for wealth.
“Marriage is always a legal and economic contract, whether people recognize it or not,” said Leti Volpp, another law professor at UC Berkeley, in an email.