Megan McCracken quoted by Reno Gazette Journal, Nov. 9, 2017
“From a legal perspective, we know it’s beyond question that if the person is conscious or aware, that would lead to an excruciating death,” McCracken said. “That would violate the Constitution.”
john a. powell writes for and Ian Haney López quoted in The Guardian, Nov. 8, 2017
The opposite of Othering is not “saming”, it is belonging. And belonging does not insist that we are all the same. It means we recognise and celebrate our differences, in a society where “we the people” includes all the people.
In the United States, politicians used to engage in what scholar Ian Haney-Lopez calls “dog whistles” – they could make references to Others but only in a coded way; never saying “those Mexicans” or “those Muslims”, for example.
Steven Davidoff Solomon quoted by CNBC, Nov. 7, 2017
“Although they won’t say it, people like what they see” in the current administration, said Steven Davidoff Solomon.
Franklin Zimring and Gordon Hawkins study cited by The New York Times, Nov. 7, 2017
The United States is not actually more prone to crime than other developed countries, according to a landmark 1999 study by Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins. … American crime is simply more lethal. … They concluded that the discrepancy, like so many other anomalies of American violence, came down to guns.
Erwin Chemerinsky brief cited by Independent, Nov. 7, 2017
The group, which includes Erwin Chemerinsky … said: “Cultivating a false sense that political leaders are adored by the public is critical to warping the public’s understanding of how those leaders are really viewed by the public and, in turn, to quashing democratic impulses.”
Ann Ravel quoted by Press-Telegram, Nov. 7, 2017
Ann Ravel … said the latter type of right hasn’t been bestowed upon internet access. “The courts have not enunciated this as a basic legal right,” Ravel said. “And as far as I know legislatures have not so indicated either.”
Saira Mohamed quoted by Daily Journal (registration required), Nov. 7, 2017
She recently taught the opinion, though it was later vacated after the city and the class settled, and she said that it was an important decision. “I think the Jones case is pioneering in its understanding of the criminalization of poverty,” she commented.
Barbara Bryant quoted by The Sacramento Bee, Nov. 6, 2017
Bryant said the confidentiality protections should extend to people who are accused of sexual harassment, at least until investigators determine if someone might have committed a crime. That may help an accused person feel less defensive. “If we can make progress to resolve it between the individuals, the whole idea is that it would be kept private,” she said.
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by The Sacramento Bee, Nov. 6, 2017
This is unprecedented in American history. So far as is known, never before has a foreign power systematically tried to exercise such influence in an American election. This warrants a thorough investigation and steps to ensure it never happens again.
Erwin Chemerinsky and john a. powell quoted by California Magazine, Nov. 6, 2017
“Would we be better off if the campus had the power to prevent the speakers that they find offensive from being there?” Chemerinsky says. “We might think that’s our ideal, but I still worry that’s what would have kept students from protesting segregation, or from protesting the Vietnam War. When you give the government the power to censor the speech that we find offensive, it’s going to be used against us.”
“We are moral beings, and we have to think about things in a much deeper way than just what the court said,” powell said. “Some things injure other people, and both the concept of liberty and equality doesn’t allow us to injure other people with impunity.”