Constitutional Law

Dean Chemerinsky writes about the question of when state governments have standing to sue the United States.

“It’s clear that Biden is going to have a lasting influence on the 9th Circuit by virtue of who he has picked. He certainly has enhanced the diversity,” said UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

Dean Chemerinsky discusses the history of policing powers and his book Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights.

“The need for a special prosecutor was of course magnified by the earlier appointment of another one, Jack Smith, to look into Trump’s improper possession and handling of classified documents,” writes Dean Chemerinksy. “But there are crucial differences between the cases.”

In conversation with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of UC Berkeley School of Law, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar discussed soaking up every Supreme Court argument during the two years she clerked for Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.

Dean Chemerinsky discusses his recent book Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism.

The Chronicle’s Bob Egelko reviews Dean Chemerinsky’s latest book, “A Momentous Year in the Supreme Court.”

“Sometimes an especially momentous U.S. Supreme Court term is followed by a quieter year with fewer blockbuster decisions,” writes Dean Chemerinsky. “But that is not what we should expect when the court hands down its rulings for this term in spring 2023.”

“It’s long past time for all Supreme Court proceedings to be livestreamed over video and archived, as is done in many federal appellate courts around the country,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “Yet the high court has traditionally refused to allow any broadcasting of audio or video of its proceedings.”

“The five conservative justices based their decision not on the purpose of Title 42, which is to stop the spread of a communicable disease, but on their partisan agreement with conservatives on immigration issues,” writes Dean Chemerinksy. “We should expect better of the court than that.”