Constitutional Law

“Simply put, the bill would prevent the government from compiling a massive database on those who are not suspected of anything,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

“No library can buy every book. It always has to make choices,” Chemerinsky said, but a library that chooses to acquire only books that support the current presidential administration would clearly violate the Constitution. “Where is the line to be drawn?”

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses notable concurring opinions from the most recent Supreme Court term.

“Never before in American history has there been a president who has shown such disregard for the Constitution and laws of the United States.” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “It is imperative that there be an attorney general who will try to stop this, not facilitate it. Todd Blanche is clearly not that person, and his nomination should be rejected.”

“Popular constitutionalism reflects a simple ideal: The Constitution belongs not just to the courts, but to all of us. The American people can and should shape the meaning of the Constitution,” write Professors Joy Milligan and Bertrall Ross.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discusses what surprised him most about the latest Supreme Court term.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky weighs in on the Supreme Court’s Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections decision.

“A tragic pattern of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions is leaving individuals who have been seriously injured and whose rights have been violated with no remedy whatsoever,” Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley law school, told CNN. “Rights are meaningless without courts to provide remedies when they are violated.”

Professors Amanda Tyler and John Yoo comment on the SCOTUS birthright citizenship decision.

“Trump won where his agenda coincided with the one that the conservative court has pursued long before his arrival on the scene,” said Professor John Yoo.