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Media engagements by James Tierney on news involving state attorneys general.
“If the Supreme Court chooses to return abortion laws to the states, says former Maine Attorney General James Tierney, it ‘just shows that the Supreme Court really doesn’t have a clue how states work. And so we are going to have a lot of decision makers making different kinds of decisions.’”
Michael Smerconish, “If Roe is overturned, will law enforcement honor the outcome?,” Smerconish, CNN, June 18, 2022.
CGTN's Elaine Reyes speaks with James Tierney, Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School and Former Attorney General of Maine, about what we've learned about the chaos at the U.S. Capitol in the week since it happened.
“James Tierney on U.S. Capitol chaos, one week later,” CGTN, January 14, 2021.
Harvard Law School’s James Tierney says police would have treated Black Lives Matter protesters differently.
“‘[T]he cause of this disaster arose long before the Capitol building was breached.
’Bluntly, if the Capitol Police knew a Black Lives Matter march of thousands of protesters were marching down Pennsylvania avenue, their implicit biases would have resulted in a very different kind of preparation. They would have pushed the fences back and been waiting in full riot gear. Their batons would have been at the ready and they would have had plenty of back up. Their predisposition to a Black Live Matter march would undoubtedly have led to assertive and physical responses at the slightest provocation.’”
Jeff Neal, “Did implicit bias lead to breach of U.S. Capitol?,” Harvard Law Today, January 8, 2021.
