Jack Coons and Stephen Sugarman cited by redefinED, April 10, 2017
A decade later, Berkeley law professors Jack Coons and Stephen Sugarman fell short in their bid to bring universal school choice to California, but their gutsy campaign still punctuates a historical truth: school choice in America has deep, rich roots on the left.
John Yoo interviewed by KQED-TV Newsroom, April 7, 2017
Presidents have long used force abroad without getting a declaration of war from congress. In fact, we haven’t declared war since World War II. … However, a lot of presidents want to have a show of political support from Congress, and so it may behoove Trump to go back and show some kind of support for the action.
John Yoo interviewed by WSJ Opinion Journal, April 6, 2017
“There was no filibuster in the original Constitution. There was no filibuster until 1837. So for the most basic and important questions of our country’s early history, there’d been no filibuster. … What the filibuster had become was a way to shut off debate, to prevent the Senate from taking our important issues of the day and moving forward to address them.”
Taeku Lee quoted by Los Angeles Times, April 6, 2017
“Korean Americans in Southern California have been hungry for political representation for a very long time,” said Taeku Lee, a professor of politics and law at UC Berkeley. Lee said the recent campaign that helped propel David Ryu, the first Korean American elected to the L.A. City Council, may have also helped the community learn on-the-ground skills that mobilized voters in the congressional race.
John Yoo co-writes for The Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2017
Arcane and opaque rules have allowed a minority to paralyze the Senate and prevent consideration of nominees, treaties and legislation. Democracy is too important to permit winks, nods and obstruction to be the order of the day. Senators should stop worrying and learn to love the nuclear option.
David Carrillo quoted by Los Angeles Times, April 2, 2017
UC Berkeley’s David A. Carrillo, director of a center that studies the California Constitution, described the initiative as a new unfunded mandate. “There is no way the courts can get through the existing backlog in five years with their current resources,” Carrillo said.
Jennifer Granholm quoted by The Sacramento Bee, March 30, 2017
“The criminal wrongdoer should not be permitted to profit from its wrongdoing,” former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm told the Senate panel.
Daniel Farber quoted by Earth Island Journal, March 30, 2017
“[Gorsuch] doesn’t strike me as a bomb thrower, that he’s going to come down with some striking decisions that wreak havoc,” Farber adds. “Given that the decision was going to be made by a Republican president, I don’t think that we were going to do much better than him in terms of environmental cases, and maybe in general.”
Jesse Choper quoted by California Magazine, March 30, 2017
“The court is by no means representative of the country,” says Berkeley Law’s Jesse Choper, “not geographically, not religiously, not educationally. The fact is that every one of them was from either Harvard or Yale. It used to be more diverse [in that sense], and it used to be that where you were from mattered. I think it still does, but I think where they were educated matters more.”
Melissa Murray quoted by The Recorder (registration required), March 29, 2017
The Sundquists are among thousands of Californians who have suffered mortgage trauma in the past decade, wrote Interim UC Berkeley Law Dean Melissa Murray in a statement. “The case is in its infancy; this is the first stage of what could be a long, drawn-out appeals process,” Murray wrote. “But it’s vital that the issue of consumer fraud remain in the public domain. At the law school, we have long-recognized the importance of this area of law, which is reflected in our current curriculum, our consumer rights work, and our new hire of a professor with expertise in consumer bankruptcy law.”