The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 11, 2008 by Dionne Searcey
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122895801049696725.html#printMode
“When we made so-called murder policy, nobody had an eight-year-old in mind,” says Franklin Zimring, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.
Haaretz, Dec. 11, 2008 by Ruth Sinai
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1045093.html
In a letter, Gergen said the decision would harm Tel Aviv University’s reputation. It is crucial, he wrote, that universities do not intervene in law clinic decisions about which clients to represent.
FOX TV, America’s News Headquarters, Dec. 10, 2008 Hosted by Heather Nauert
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“It’s very easy to say, ‘Oh, we should shut down Guantanamo Bay, it’s hurting our world image.’ The hard thing is, what do you do when you shut it down?… Where in the United States are we going to house 250 of the worst terrorists, people so bad that we could not convince their own countries to take them back; people who are so bad that … they don’t really care about having a fair trial. They just want to go along and get themselves executed to become martyrs.”
Marin Independent Journal, Dec. 10, 2008 by Kimberly Weichel and Kirk Boyd
http://www.marinij.com/ci_11183550?source=rss
Freedom from want includes economic and social rights such as education and health care. Obama said during a debate that “health care is a right,” and it is. It’s time for these rights to be put on an equal footing with rights such as free speech and freedom of religion.
San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 10, 2008 by Zachary Coile
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/10/MNG314KQQF.DTL
Other Bay Area residents who have been mentioned for top jobs include Maria Echaveste, a former Clinton White House adviser and lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, for labor secretary.
Advocate.com, Dec. 9, 2008 by Kerry Eleveld
http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid68050.asp
“Sources on the transition say that this project is one of the best organized efforts of any of the communities that have projects,” said Eric Stern, a San Francisco-based attorney and political operative.
The New York Times, Dec. 9, 2008 by Adam Nossiter
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/us/10siegelman.html?pagewanted=print
“That’s something that’s always struck me as odd about the Siegelman case,” Mr. Sklansky said. “The absence of strong evidence for quid pro quo, plus no evidence of personal enrichment, made the Siegelman case look kind of odd to me.”
“I wouldn’t expect any real softening from the government because there is so much history to the case and so many personal investments in a prosecution,” Zimring said.
Washington Independent, Dec. 8, 2008 by Daphne Eviatar
http://washingtonindependent.com/21313/21313
Carolyn Patty Blum, emeritus professor at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law [and] a consultant to the International Center for Transitional Justice, which specializes in accountability for human-rights abuses, disagrees. “[Our] institutional experience working with truth commissions around the world is that the opposite happens. Once people feel they are already protected, they don’t have any incentive to come forward.”
Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 7, 2008 by John Yoo
http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all%2CpubID.29030/pub_detail.asp
Obama shouldn’t misinterpret his electoral victory as a sweeping mandate—perhaps President Bush’s overarching political mistake—or the introduction of a new political order. The president-elect would be better-served by moving swiftly to cure the recession and then focusing on moderate, bipartisan policies in areas such as education, spending and entitlement reform.