Christopher Kutz quoted by Chicago Tribune, July 19, 2017
The rare instances when police find evidence of a crime, Kutz told me, “don’t justify the enormous social costs of widespread police interventions.” This is an extremely inefficient way of detecting drug and gun crimes.
James Dempsey quoted by The Washington Post, July 18, 2017
James Dempsey … said that the data confirms the common-sense conclusion that secret law enforcement requests for phone and Internet records have surged as they have become routine in criminal cases.
John Yoo co-writes for Chicago Tribune, July 17, 2017
For now, two words describe the Trump Tower meeting: brain-dead. But dumb does not equal criminal. Criminalizing all dumb moves in political campaigns would effectively eviscerate the First Amendment.
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by The Sacramento Bee, July 15, 2017
Erwin Chemerinsky … writes on these pages: “Never before has a foreign government so clearly tried to affect a presidential campaign.”
Alexa Koenig quoted by ABC 7 News, July 13, 2017
“For example, if there is a mosque that we can see, we can locate that mosque through satellite imagery to establish that the town where this was supposedly taken is, in fact, that town. If it’s authentic, it’ll be archived as a factual record to be used by human rights groups,” said Alexa Koenig.
Erwin Chemerinsky writes for The Sacramento Bee, July 13, 2017
All, regardless of political affiliation, should be outraged that top officials in a presidential campaign – including the candidate’s son, son-in-law, and campaign manager
– were eager to receive help from the Russian government to influence the outcome of the election. But it is clear that this is part of a much larger, deeply disturbing pattern and the whole story is not yet known.
Ethan Elkind co-writes for Daily Bulletin, July 12, 2017
After accounting for the costs and loss of jobs in industries required to comply with cap and trade, as well as the benefits from investments of cap-and-trade revenue, we found in the Inland Empire, the program had net economic impacts of $25.7 million, $900,000 in tax revenue and net employment growth of 154 jobs.
Kate Weisburd quoted by Capital Public Radio, July 12, 2017
“We were repeatedly seeing our clients really struggling on electronic monitoring and then they end up back in jail,” says Kate Weisburd.
Catherine Crump and Kate Weisburd quoted by The Associated Press, July 12, 2017
“People in one county didn’t even know what the county next door’s policies were,” said Catherine Crump, an assistant clinical professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law.
Some counties require a parent be home at all times, that schedules be approved weeks in advance, or that landline phones be set up in the home, which could prove to be a hurdle for a child from a poorer home, said Kate Weisburd, a supervising attorney at the East Bay Community Law Center.
John Briscoe writes for San Francisco Chronicle, July 9, 2017
In America’s ever-evolving relations with race, we ride a new wave of sensibility. A moment’s reflection reveals the extent that our streets, schools, buildings — even our nation’s capital — are named for slaveholders.