Kim Thuy Seelinger quoted by The Guardian, Sept. 18, 2016
“It went from a case where there was zero sexual violence in the charging recommended by the investigating judges to a verdict that was really heavy with sexual violence,” Seelinger says. “It’s great, it’s astounding, and it’s quite dramatic in terms of international jurisprudence.”
John Yoo interviewed by WSJ Video, Sept. 16, 2016
“If you actually look at what he leaked, he provided our rivals around the world, and our terrorist enemies, with a laundry list of all the different innovations and techniques that our NSA and our intelligence services were using to collect information on their efforts against … foreign terrorist plots. I couldn’t actually think of something more damaging.”
Elisabeth Semel quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 14, 2016
“It’s modeled after the laws in Texas, where we know innocent people have been executed,” said Elisabeth Semel, director of the Death Penalty Clinic at UC Berkeley Law School. Death penalty supporters heatedly dispute that claim, but Semel cited the Texas case of Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in 2004 for killing his three children in a fire that a series of experts, including one hired by the state, have since concluded was most likely accidental.
Ethan Elkind quoted by Richmond Confidential, Sept. 13, 2016
“The fact that it sailed through the city planning commission and the city council, and yet is still hit with a lawsuit under the California Environmental Quality Act, I think really illustrates the challenges for developers trying to build in these urban areas,” Elkind said.
Jeffrey Selbin quoted by Daily Journal (registration required), Sept. 13, 2016
“It’s a very positive development that cities are beginning to recognize that it is costly and inconvenient to enforce laws against homeless people when at the same time they fail to provide adequate shelter to meet their basic needs,” said Jeffrey Selbin.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Sept. 13, 2016
The question is whether this is a step too far. A business that has never substantially affected the soundness of banks is now threatened with extinction.
john a. powell quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 13, 2016
“Trump feeds off of people feeling bad, feeling angry. Then he says, ‘I can save you,’” Powell said. “Much of their effort — by Republicans and Trump — is that they need to say that things are bad. Their campaign is one of deep anxiety and polarization, that the country is going to hell in a handbasket.”
Dan Farber and Ethan Elkind quoted by E&E News, Sept. 12, 2016
“California’s take on climate change is directly at odds with [Republican nominee Donald] Trump’s view that it’s a hoax, so if he becomes president, California will be on its own,” said Dan Farber. … “However, it would provide support for [Democratic nominee Hillary] Clinton’s approach and for the Clean Power Plan.”
“I think it bolsters the Clean Power Plan by showing that one of our biggest states, economy wise, is set to achieve even more aggressive targets than what’s called for in the federal plan,” said Ethan Elkind,
Ethan Elkind interviewed by The Real News Network, Sept. 11, 2016
S.B. 32 is a groundbreaking law on climate change in greenhouse gas reduction. But A.B. 197 is really groundbreaking in a different way. For the first time now, we’re really trying to address this sort of environmental injustice that you’re referring to, which is the idea that we have a lot of low-income communities of color who disproportionately get the negative effects of pollution and also are the ones most at risk as climate change worsens.
Jeffrey Selbin quoted by Los Angeles Times, Sept. 11, 2016
Since then, the U.S. Department of Justice has called on federal courts to adopt the reasoning in the Jones case, but cities often sidestep the issue by enacting bans that cover only specific times of day or locations, said Jeffrey Selbin, director of the Berkeley clinic.