San Francisco Daily Journal, June 26, by Brent Kendall
www.dailyjournal.com [registration required]
Elisabeth Semel, director of UC Berkeley School of Law’s Death Penalty Clinic, said “the most important part of the decision is that it’s not a narrow one.”
KQED Forum with Michael Krasny, June 26, host John Myers
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R806301000
“When I talk about liberal-leaning justices I certainly don’t mean what we identify as liberal-leaning political figures. There is some overlap, but there is some difference. It is a philosophical approach to interpreting these very broad places in the Constitution which has to be given some context.”
The Daily Californian, June 25, by Emma Anderson
http://www.dailycal.org/article/101985
“(The rankings feature) may have been added as a gimmick to encourage more postings, so you’d get more downloads,” Fried said…. “It got one thousand downloads. Does that make it more scholarly significant? No.”
“It’s not a great barometer,” Talley said. “All you really need is a really provocative title and people will download it only to reach page three and find it’s nothing.”
Time Magazine, June 25, by Kate Pickert
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1815535,00.html
A simpler, barbiturate-only procedure was rejected on the grounds that the public would not support a killing method for humans modeled after that used for animals, according to Ty Alper.
-KPCC Los Angeles, Patt Morrison, June 25
http://www.scpr.org/programs/pattmorrison/listings/2008/06/pattmorrison_20080623.shtml
“I’m actually concerned because I think this case creates an incentive for batterers to kill their victims. If their victim is still alive, it’s easier for the prosecution to prove that the victim is being kept away. If she’s dead there’s no way to prove that.”
-KGO Talk Radio, 2 pm news hour, June 26, Gil Gross
http://www.kgoam810.com [archive unavailable]
“We need to give prosecutors the tools they need to convict people who kill their partners.”
Radio Bilingüe, June 24, host Samuel Orozco
http://www.radiobilingue.org/la_080623_en.htm
Top civil rights expert Ana Henderson comments on issues of access to the ballot box and the growing use of Spanish in the current political campaign season.
UC Berkeley News, June 23, by Wendy Edelstein
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/06/23_wed.shtml
“The sense of commitment and permanence was only enhanced.… Because this time it is really legal, it did feel different.”
Washington Post, June 19, by Ashley Surdin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061802913_pf.html
Unlike instances in which doctors refuse to perform abortions, this case is unusual in that doctors are seemingly denying services to a select group of patients, said Joan Hollinger…. “The case raises a whole series of questions about the basis for which people can be denied medical treatment, particularly the extent to which gays or lesbians could be denied access to reproductive technology.”
The Desert Sun, June 17, by Nicole C. Brambila
http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080617/NEWS01/806170315/-1/NEWSFRONT
“It’s a big deal.… Eventually, and I think sooner than later, I think a case is going to reach the U.S. Supreme Court and that will be the big bell rung, one way or the other.”
Wall Street Journal, June 17, by John Yoo
http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121366596327979497.html
“From the celebrations on most U.S. editorial pages, one might think that the Court had stopped a dictator from trampling civil liberties. Boumediene did anything but. The 5-4 ruling is judicial imperialism of the highest order.”