Franklin Zimring quoted by Associated Press, Nov. 13, 2016
Gun ownership in states like California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York is already so heavily regulated that when proponents seek to further restrict ownership, they often are limited to making marginal changes like those included in Proposition 63, he said.
Dan Farber quoted by Reuters, Nov. 12, 2016
Dan Farber … said the best that advocates for climate change action could hope for from courts is to “play successful defense against an anti-environmental onslaught” from the new administration. “It’s a fairly grim situation,” he added.
Ethan Elkind quoted by CALmatters Nov. 10, 2016
It would be a “nightmare scenario” if the Trump administration imposed national rules to override state climate policies, said Ethan Elkind. … “Congress could preempt most of California’s climate agenda if they had the political support to do that,” he said. “Once the federal government takes an action on an issue, they could preempt the field.”
Andrea Lampros and Alexa Koenig quoted by New Scientist, Nov. 11, 2016
“The use of smartphones has basically proliferated, and so too has the amount of potential evidence. But the actual verification of that is critical,” says Andrea Lampros at the University of California, Berkeley’s Human Rights Center (HRC). “That’s what makes it valid and usable—and that requires a tremendous amount of people power. We can help sift through those vast amounts of material and make them really useful to human rights groups and, potentially, courts.”
At the HRC, corps members are also trying to gather evidence in support of ongoing human rights cases. “Lawyers are beginning to realise the value of doing research through publicly available information for legally related purposes, but when you’re talking about actually trying to bring that information into court as evidence, there are additional considerations,” says Alexa Koenig at the HRC.
John Yoo quoted by CNN.com, Nov. 11, 2016
At a Heritage Foundation event Thursday, John Yoo … got a warm reception from the crowd by cracking about the closeness. “I’m surprised there are so many people here because I thought everyone at Heritage was working over at transition headquarters,” Yoo said on the panel about Trump’s win. “I asked the taxi cab driver to take me to Trump transition headquarters and he dropped me off here, instead.”
Jesse Choper quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 10, 2016
Despite the 1994 ruling, Jesse Choper, a constitutional law professor at UC Berkeley and a former Supreme Court law clerk, said he would like to see the court allow Trump or any other president to put all pending private lawsuits on hold while in office. “It would help him proceed with the job at hand,” Choper said.
John Yoo quoted by The Daily Signal, Nov. 10, 2016
“It’s not just Supreme Court justices that are important,” Yoo said. “It is also who the attorney general is [and] how the Trump administration is going to interpret and enforce federal law.”
Yoo said that would “have much more of an immediate importance about the Constitution than who he appoints to the Supreme Court.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Nov. 10, 2016
This rise will be determined by whether a Trump administration can govern with stability. A conciliatory and seemingly normal victory speech combined with a turnaround in the markets on Wednesday make that seem like a real possibility and bode well for mergers and acquisitions.
Elisabeth Semel quoted by Daily Journal (registration required), Nov. 10, 2016
Prop. 66 attempts to dictate how the state Supreme Court will manage its docket and takes from the Judicial Council the authority to establish the qualifications for defending capital cases and disbursing it to superior courts, Semel said, calling the initiative “a patchwork of ill-conceived ideas” that ignores constitutional rights.
John Yoo quoted by Foreign Policy, Nov. 10, 2016
“He thinks all kinds of crazy things about prosecutions,” said John Yoo. … “I don’t think he has a very good sense of how our law enforcement system works.”