Faculty Who Lead: UC Law SF Experts Discuss Initial Days of Trump Administration

UC Law San Francisco faculty members, from left, Matt Coles, Natalia Ramírez Lee, Rory Little, and Zachary Price provided legal insight and analysis on the initial days of the Trump administration on important issues including presidential powers, immigration, birthright citizenship, and the enforcement of the TikTok ban.
Analysis covers issues including presidential powers, immigration, citizenship, and TikTok
UC Law San Francisco faculty are providing important legal expertise and context following the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump on his first day in office and statements made by his appointees.
The orders and announcements have wide-ranging implications, both for the law and the people they affect
Wall Street Journal
Can presidents pick and choose which laws to enforce? In a new Wall Street Journal op-ed, Professor Zachary Price argues that President Trump’s TikTok ban delay follows a troubling pattern of non-enforcement actions by recent administrations — including the Obama and Biden administrations — that violate the Constitution’s Take Care Clause.
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CNN
Prof. Price says the president’s executive order delaying enforcement of the TikTok ban may not face the same level legal challenges that the ban itself did.
Professor Zachary Price was previously an attorney in the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. He has also worked as a litigator in private practice and clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court.
CBS News Bay Area
Professor Matt Coles discusses the 14th Amendment and the fundamental 1898 Supreme Court ruling that will affect implementation of the president’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship to people who have at least one parent who’s a citizen or permanent resident.
>> U.S. birthright citizenship established by 1898 San Francisco case involving Chinatown resident
Professor Matt Coles was Deputy National Legal Director at the American Civil Liberties Union before joining the UC Law SF faculty. Coles was responsible for the organization’s work on race, voting, disability, and immigration.
NBC Bay Area
Professor Rory Little discusses the constitutionality of the president’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship, along with what might come next in the courts in response to the many executive orders.
>> A closer look: Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, immigration crackdown
Professor Rory Little served as an associate deputy attorney general for U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and previously was the Appellate Chief for the Northern District of California U.S. Attorney’s office.
ABC7 News
Professor Natalia Ramírez Lee discusses the realities of the president’s executive order to eliminate remote work by federal employees and notes that the order could be part of the president’s larger political strategy.
>> Will remote federal employees in SF have to return to office after Trump order?
Professor Natalia Ramírez Lee co-led the Women’s Employment Rights Clinic at Golden Gate University and worked as a litigator for two employment law firms in Oakland.