"Today’s conservative jurists have adopted the anti-expertise, populist stance of the larger conservative movement and are far less inclined than conservative judges in the past to prioritize health or value expertise," writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an op-ed for Scientific American.
"The defense counsel may not be aware of the racial overtones in his arguments, but his words paint Williams as someone whose anger overpowered and colored his perception of the event," Professor Deborah Ramirez, founder of Northeastern Law's Criminal Justice Task Force, tells The Washington Post.
“To rally around Chauvin and say, ‘This is policing as normal, this is acceptable practice,’ would risk greater harm to the reputation of the police than basically just coming forward and saying, ‘This is not who we are, and this is not what we do,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells VICE News. “I think all of them are aligned with coming forward and saying Chauvin is outside of our group: that he is a bad apple but we are a good tree.”
"For many elected officials, and even many judges, partisanship, rather than salus populi, seems to be the supreme law," writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an op-ed for The Washington Post.
Watch: In a live interview with NBC Boston, Professor Alexandra Meise explains some of the broader implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling curbing the federal government’s ability to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
Professor Daniel Medwed tells The Boston Globe that restrictions on protests can be upheld in court so long as they are “‘content-neutral,’ e.g., not designed to suppress a particular viewpoint.”
Rahsaan Hall ’98, former director of the Racial Justice Program of the ACLU of Massachusetts, has announced his candidacy for Plymouth district attorney.