Erwin Chemerinsky writes for The Sacramento Bee, Oct. 17, 2017
President Donald Trump’s elimination of subsidies to help lower income Americans afford health care is illegal and just plain mean. The result is that millions of people may lose their health care coverage, but with no savings in cost to the federal government. This is simply an attempt by the president to accomplish by executive fiat what he could not do through Congress: the gutting of Obamacare.
Bruce Budner quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 17, 2017
“We have to distinguish between bad taste and unethical. Sure, the timing of this may put some people off. Maybe for good reason,” Budner said. If he were defending the firms in the court of public opinion, “I might say sure, this may seem premature to some, but the sooner a lawsuit gets filed, the sooner evidence can be protected.”
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Columbia Journalism Review, Oct. 17, 2017
“We saw the same thing [as the Robinson phenomenon] at Berkeley,” writes Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley’s law school and coauthor of Free Speech on Campus, in an email. “Last year, [conservative commentator] Ben Shapiro spoke with no attention at all. This year, it took $600,000 of protection. I think the Trump election has caused everything to be more polarized.”
Andrew Bradt quoted by The Press Democrat, Oct. 17, 2017
“This litigation is at its earliest stages, and if PG&E is a plausible defendant, it’s going to be a battle royale,” Bradt said.
Keith Hiatt quoted by The Sacramento Bee, Oct. 17, 2017
The idea is not without its critics. Keith Hiatt … told the New York Times that the service may serve to just reinforce the idea that assault victims need an extra burden of proof before they’re believed. “We have to be a little sad that we live in a world where something like this is necessary,” he said.
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by The Daily Californian, Oct. 16, 2017
“Several of our students expressed their disagreement with him and did so in a completely appropriate way that led to discussion and dialogue,” Chemerinsky said in the letter. “I was pleased to hear of how this went, but then shocked to learn of the swastika drawn on a flyer that someone had posted about him.”
Alan Auerbach quoted by The Washington Post, Oct. 16, 2017
Auerbach says business tax cuts can increase wages “under some circumstances.” But he does not think that simply cutting the rates from 35 percent to 20 percent is enough.
Franklin Zimring quoted by The Daily Californian, Oct. 15, 2017
Zimring is not a part of the center, but he also researches gun violence in relation to the police. … “The state funding is catching up with the research effort,” Zimring said. “The whole point of the new (university research) center is not only to cover front-page headlines but to carefully assess statistically what the major problems are for most deaths and injuries.”
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Daily Journal (registration required), Oct. 13, 2017
“This is a very important civil rights case, involving egregious police abuse,” said Erwin Chemerinsky … at the time the suit was filed. “The allegations in the complaint, which I have read, point to a very serious abuse of government power.”
Ann Ravel quoted by San Antonio Express-News, Oct. 12, 2017
Regulating close relationships between social media companies and campaigns is a matter largely outside of federal control at present, she noted. “I think it would be very difficult to do that under campaign finance laws. It would be very hard to think of a way to address that,” she said.