Professor John Yoo provides a deep dive into what ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws are, their nuanced nature, and the legal protections Americans have in court.
Professor Charles Weisselberg weighs in on the push for clemency for people who were convicted of crimes committed before November 1987, when the federal parole system was abolished and replaced with new U.S. sentencing guidelines.
“Under the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. Place, the government needs ‘reasonable suspicion’ to briefly seize your bag at an airport without a warrant or consent to subject it to a drug-detection dog’s sniff,” said Professor Orin Kerr.
Tweet by Professor Orin Kerr quoted in Vanity Fair: “I don’t know if Trump is going to be reelected in 2024. But I know that, if he is, he’s going to preface every blatantly illegal thing he does by saying, ‘Official act, this is an official act.’”
“The Supreme Court just ripped away the biggest incentive that cities had to build more shelters and supportive housing for the homeless,” write Berkeley Law Professor Jeffrey Selbin and Jamie Suki Chang, associate professor of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley.
Professor Colleen Chien talks to NPR about Maryland’s mass marijuana pardons, drawing attention to not just the proclamation, but the implementation of relief.
“Whatever you might think of the outcomes of any particular case, the role of the jury in assigning blame or protecting the innocent is fundamental to the American understanding of justice,” write Berkeley Law professor Andrea Roth and Rutgers University professor of law J.D. King.
