San Francisco Chronicle, December 29, 2011 by Bob Egelko
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-12-29/news/30567772_1_abortion-rights-decisions-law-professors-rulings

If Congress passed a law prohibiting abortions and barring all judicial review, “it’s highly, highly unlikely that the Supreme Court would find such a law constitutional,” said Fred Smith, who teaches law at UC Berkeley. “There are so many avenues of review” for the case to reach the high court, he said.

American Banker, December 22, 2011 by Kate Berry and Jeff Horwitz
http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/176_247/preemption-fannie-freddie-fhfa-
kamala-harris-1045105-1.html (registration required)

Smith notes that the Housing Economic Recovery Act, which placed the GSEs in conservatorship, only said that states would have no authority over the FHFA – not the GSEs. “If you look at the language, the FHFA’s position that states don’t have any authority over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is a bit of a jump,” he says.