In the Media Chief Justice John Roberts Rebuked Trump This Term. What’s He Up To? It was a “crass political maneuver,” says Harvard Law School professor Richard Lazarus, who has known Roberts since the two were roommates in law school. July 14, 2020
In the Media Who Is Chief Justice John Roberts? RICHARD LAZARUS: I think the central message here is the law applies to everybody, and that includes the president of the United States. And I’m not going to give you any breaks here. June 22, 2020
In the Media The Supreme Court Extends A Life-Support Line For ‘Dreamers’ RICHARD LAZARUS: What these decisions this week underscore is we have a chief justice who is, plainly, working hard to try to demonstrate to the American people that the court, unlike the other two branches, is doing its job. He wants the American people to believe there’s a thing called law, and a justice’s job is to apply it. June 22, 2020
In the Media Trump Administration Challenges California And Automakers On Fuel Economy All this could set up an “epic” legal battle, says Jody Freeman, who served under the Obama administration and is now at Harvard Law School. She says the EPA under President George W. Bush also rejected California’s emissions waiver, but “that hasn’t been tested in the courts, so we don’t know how it would come out.” September 10, 2019
In the Media Trump Administration Finalizes Replacement To Obama’s Clean Power NPR’s Rachel Martin talks to Joseph Goffman, of the Environmental & Energy Law Program at Harvard, about the end of the Clean Power Plan, which he worked on in the Obama administration. June 20, 2019