Ian Haney López quoted in VICE, July 12, 2016
“In the face of social change that has declared people of color are equally human with whites, that women are equally human with men and deserve the same rights of self-determination, that multiple religions and even non-religions ought to be respected,” he told VICE, “there are segments of the population who are driven to reclaim their prior superior position in unjust hierarchies.”
Daniel Farber writes for Daily Journal (registration required), July 11, 2016
The Obama administration’s most important effort to address climate change, the Clean Power Plan (CCP), comes before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit this fall and will almost inevitably go from there to the Supreme Court.
Franklin Zimring quoted in Chicago Tribune, July 8, 2016
American police kill civilians at rates five times higher than police in Canada, 40 times higher than in Germany and 140 times higher than in England and Wales. Is that because we have so much more violent crime, including gun crime? Partly, says Zimring, but “the U.S. rate of killings by police is 10 times as great as the difference in homicides generally.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, July 8, 2016
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the City of Ann Arbor Employees’ Retirement System in Michigan, looks at Mr. Katzenberg’s ownership of DreamWorks, which has dual-class stock. … Mr. Katzenberg owns all of the Class B stock. Together with his Class A shares, he has 60 percent of the vote for DreamWorks despite owning only 11.5 percent of the total outstanding shares.
John Yoo interviewed by Newsmax TV, July 7, 2016
“I think it’s very strange that she wasn’t under oath and really, really strange that there was no transcript of the interview,” Yoo observed. “People higher up than those agents have to make the decision whether to prosecute Hillary and her aides. If they’re not present in the interview, how do they know what she said if there’s no written record of it?”
John Yoo quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, July 6, 2016
The Clinton people, noted former George W. Bush administration attorney John Yoo, now a professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, “to their own detriment, have been dragging it out.”
Catherine Crump interviewed by PRI, July 6, 2016
“In reality, the government actually has access to far more information about what each of us says and does than it has ever had before. That’s not to say there isn’t some information that the government can’t access, but far from going dark, this is a golden age for law enforcement.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, July 5, 2016
The success of Mondelez International’s $23 billion bid for the Hershey Company will depend on the charitable trust that controls the chocolate bar maker. After the Viacom imbroglio, this is yet another example of how a controlling interest can see to it that economics are secondary to politics and relationships.
Jesse Choper quoted by Northern California Record, July 5, 2016
Jesse Choper … believes the law “has a very good chance of being upheld. … Choper noted that: “There is a constitutional right to have an abortion.”
Alexa Koenig interviewed by PBS: The Open Mind, July 2, 2016
One thing that you realize when you look at the arc of justice from, say, the 1940s to the present day, is that sometimes it takes 20-30 years to actually get the highest level people to be accountable for their crimes.