Erwin Chemerinsky
Erwin Chemerinsky
Erwin Chemerinskyis an American lawyer and law professor. He is a prominent scholar in United States constitutional law and federal civil procedure. He is the current and founding dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law, which began classes in the fall semester of 2009...
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I would have enthusiastically accepted the offer if more resources had been available. But under these circumstances, I regretfully must decline.
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You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.
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Robert Bork was blocked in large part because he said in his writings that there was no constitutional right to privacy.
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I think the most difficult task for Simpson is to come up with a clear, consistent, believable story for where he was between 9:45 and eleven on the night of the murders.
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Not only will it mean this inmate will very likely be executed, but it also would make it much harder for other inmates to challenge executions based on the method of execution.
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Nothing the Supreme Court did last year was as important as the announcement that Sandra Day O'Conner was stepping down.
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What brought down the Nixon administration wasn't the burglary itself, but the cover-up of it, ... wasn't that he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky but he lied about it.
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A trial is like a jig-saw puzzle and closing argument is when the lawyers put the pieces together.
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There's enormous drama and anticipation. Is he going to announce his resignation? Are we going to spend this summer in a confirmation fight?
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This is really a case about states' rights.
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It's a year when it is going to be particularly difficult to make predictions.
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This is a docket that already has an extraordinary number of potential blockbuster cases. It will give us an early sense of who John Roberts is.
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The bottom line is the same principle will apply in the civil and criminal cases.
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dramatically changes the dynamics of the Roberts confirmation.