Angela Onwuachi-Willig quoted by The Gazette, Oct. 21, 2016
As University of California at Berkeley law professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig, a self-described “liberal black womanist,” concludes Thomas’s opinions reflect a profound concern for the black community. And, she writes, he “has been unfairly subject to the stereotype of black incompetence.”
Marjorie Shultz quoted by Daily Journal (registration required), Oct. 20, 2016
“Intentions that are voluntarily chosen, deliberate, express and bargained-for ought presumptively to determine legal parenthood.”
Christopher Hoofnagle’s and co-author’s report cited by Los Angeles Times, Oct. 19, 2016
The problem, Perzanowski and Hoofnagle observe, is that most consumers aren’t aware that they’re buying conditional access. They’re flagrantly misled by the terms “Buy” and “Own.”
Leti Volpp quoted by The Daily Californian, Oct. 18, 2016
Volpp, a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Law, began the event with an overview of Trump’s immigration policies and how they specifically affect Berkeley students, explaining that Trump’s idea of the wall portrays a “retrograde image of American border security.”
Franklin Zimring quoted by NBC News, Oct. 17, 2016
“What you have are attempts here not to mount any kind of revival of the death penalty, but to stop the bleeding,” said Franklin Zimring.
Jeffrey Selbin, Stephanie Campos-Bui PAC report cited by The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 15, 2016
“The more BIDs there are in a city, the more anti-homeless laws it has on the books,” the researchers found, according to a forthcoming report on the survey.
Christopher Edley, Jr. quoted by Chalkbeat, Oct. 14, 2016
Clinton supports charters, “but there are very important caveats,” Edley said. “She believes we should … get back to one of the principal purposes of charters, which was to innovate and then export successful innovations to the rest of the public school system. We just haven’t done that,” he said. “Let’s be much more intentional about exporting the successes, and about closing down the charters that are not performing up to expectations.”
Daniel Farber interviewed by The Federalist Society, Oct. 13, 2016
“What we’re doing a really good job of, at least to the extent that it works, is preparing people to argue cases in the D.C. Circuit. …. One thing I think we’re doing particularly poorly is preparing people to argue and represent clients for participative government lawyers in administrative proceedings, where a lot of the action is.”
John Yoo quoted by The Washington Post, Oct. 12, 2016
For John Yoo, the conservative legal scholar … Trump “reminds me a lot of early Mussolini. . . . Very, disturbingly similar. …” Yoo said Trump’s promise to appoint a special prosecutor to go after Clinton is “a compounded stupidity.”
Ian Haney López writes for The Nation, Oct. 11, 2016
Remaking our politics and economy depends on a broad coalition that must include substantial numbers of racially anxious whites. Ignoring their fears, or worse, pandering to them, further impoverishes all of us.