Dec 20, 2019 By: yunews
Campus News
Professor Deborah Pearlstein Talks Impeachment on WNYC, MSNBC and BBC Radio
Professor Deborah Pearlstein commented on the Impeachment podcast with WNYC's Brian Lehrer, 鈥渁n impeachable offense doesn鈥檛 have to be a crime as currently embodied in the federal criminal code; the existing criminal laws didn鈥檛 exist when the framers wrote the Constitution. Crimes as such weren鈥檛 what the framers had in mind when they put impeachment into the Constitution; what they were thinking about were serious offenses against the public trust.鈥 鈼 鈼Professor Jessica Roth Comments on Impeachment on MSNBC, CNN and Bloomberg's Balance of Power
Professor Jessica Roth spoke to , and Bloomberg's about the Articles of Impeachment. 鈥淭he most important audience for Senator Schumer鈥檚 letter is those moderate Republicans,鈥 she told Katy Tur on MSNBC. 鈥淲hile it may be that they ultimately vote to acquit the President, they're interested in the perceived legitimacy of the process.鈥Professor Kate Shaw Comments on Impeachment on ABC News
Professor Kate Shaw spoke on on the day of the impeachment vote: 鈥淏y saying he thinks [his conduct] was fine, there's a message being sent that he would willingly engage in this kind of conduct again.鈥 Professor Shaw was also featured in 鈥檚 鈥淪uperstars鈥 roundup in its fall issue.Professor Edward Zelinsky Comments in Forbes on Mormon Church Tax Issue
Professor Edward Zelinsky spoke to regarding the tax news that Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc., exempt as an integrated auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), has accumulated over $100 billion in assets without ever making any charitable distributions. He said, 鈥淚t strikes me as a question of policy rather than law.鈥Talks and Writing
- Professor Felix Wu spoke at the on Dec. 5.
- Professor Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum spoke at the Roundtable on the Brazilian Protein Industry on Dec. 9.
- Professor Suzanne Last Stone will speak at the the Plenary Session of the Annual Conference of Society of Jewish, Christian and Muslim Ethics, in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 12, 2020.
