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<title><![CDATA[Erwin Chemerinsky - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15544.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Erwin Chemerinsky]]></description><category domain="15544">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Is No One Stopping Trump's Illegal, Costly War in Iran?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/contributor-trump-waging-illegal-costly-100000718.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The war in Iran continues, and very few people seem to care that it's clearly illegal and unconstitutional. What does that say about the rule of law in this country, when the president can wage a pointless war at enormous cost in dollars and human lives without authorization?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Birthright Citizenship Should Never Have Been in Question]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/contributor-birthright-citizenship-never-193000434.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court handed down the final decisions of its term on Tuesday and they reflected what we have seen all year: It is a very conservative court, and although it usually will rule in favor of President Trump, there are times when it will say no to unprecedented claims of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court's Redistricting Decision Is Devastating]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/contributor-supreme-courts-decision-against-voting-rights-act-will-be-devastating/ar-AA226ZyC</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has again dealt a devastating blow to voting equality in the United States.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Simply Holding ICE Agents Accountable Isn't Enough]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/contributor-simply-holding-ice-agents-accountable-isnt-enough/ar-AA20kt4q</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senate Democrats are absolutely right in doing everything they can, including holding up funding for the Department of Homeland Security, to impose limits on behavior by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. But it is not enough.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Finally Pushed Back Against Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/contributor-supreme-court-finally-pushed-110000239.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In one of its most consequential rulings of the year, just before breaking for the holidays last week the Supreme Court held that President Trump acted improperly in federalizing the National Guard in Illinois and in activating troops across the state. Although the case centered on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Constitution Is Clear When It Comes To Trump's Tariffs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/contributor-constitution-clear-comes-trumps-110000072.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Are the Supreme Court'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s conservative justices just a rubber stamp for President Trump, virtually always willing to approve his actions? Or will the justices follow consistent, albeit conservative, principles, even if it means ruling against the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most powerful man? We...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why California Universities Must Fight Trump in Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/contributor-why-california-universities-must-120000522.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Refresher Course in American Truths]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/contributor-refresher-course-american-truths-100000025.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is it possible, at this deeply ideologically divided time, to articulate a set of principles of American constitutional democracy that those across the political spectrum can agree upon? This was our goal in creating, along with Drexel University law professor Lisa Tucker, a project we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Stunning &amp; Tragic Supreme Court Decision]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/contributor-stunning-tragic-supreme-court-173500208.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a grievous blow to separation of powers by holding that federal courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions to halt unconstitutional actions by the president and the federal government. At a time when President Trump is asserting unprecedented powers, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Much Power To Stop President Should Judges Have?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/contributor-much-power-stop-president-004500427.html?guccounter=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court could unleash even the most blatantly illegal of President Trump's executive orders. It will come down to the three swing justices '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Roberts, Kavanaugh and Barrett.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Constitutional Crisis Is Real]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/contributor-constitutional-crisis-real-182814740.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is not hyperbole to say that the future of our constitutional democracy may turn on the case of the alleged Venezuelan gangsters sent to El Salvador and the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the lawful U.S. resident swept up in that action.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Khalil's Comments Are Protected Speech]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/contributor-mahmoud-khalils-pro-palestinian-193050333.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have been outspoken about my concern about increasing antisemitism on campuses. But deporting activists violates the 1st Amendment and does nothing to combat antisemitism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Signposts on the Road to Authoritarian Rule]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-signposts-road-authoritarian-rule-000008108.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How do constitutional democracies die? The Trump administration is following a well-worn pathway toward autocracy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Courts Enforce the Constitution Against Trump?]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/justice/2025-01-22-will-courts-enforce-constitution-against-president-trump/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If they don't, the checks and balances that have defined our government since its inception will give way to one-man authoritarian rule.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No One Has a Right To Protest at My Home]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/no-one-has-a-right-to-protest-in-my-home/ar-AA1nHZvE</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a constitutional scholar and the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, I strongly defend the right to speak one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s mind in public forums. But the rancorous debate over the Israel-Hamas war seems to be blurring some people'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sense of which settings are public and which are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nothing Prepared Me for Antisemitism I See on Campuses]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-nothing-has-prepared-me-for-the-antisemitism-i-see-on-college-campuses-now/ar-AA1j2Zyj</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iam a 70-year-old Jewish man, but never in my life have I seen or felt the antisemitism of the last few weeks. I have heard antisemitic things from time to time through my life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gag Order Against Trump Is Unconstitutional]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-a-federal-judges-gag-order-against-trump-may-be-satisfying-but-it-isnt-constitutional/ar-AA1infyZ</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although I often wish that Donald Trump would shut up, he has a constitutional right not to. A federal judge went too far in restricting his free expression Monday when she imposed a gag order on the former president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How To Investigate Biden &amp; Trump Docs Scandals]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article271282262.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The legal authority to conduct truly independent investigations expired in 1999, writes UC Berkeley's Erwin Chemerinsky.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Title 42, SCOTUS Throws Out Common Sense]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-title-42-supreme-111546415.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one disputes that COVID no longer warrants immigration restrictions. Yet the conservative justices are bending to the requests of 19 states, pushing to close the border.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does 1st Amendment Protect a Right To Discriminate?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/video/op-ed-does-1st-amendment-111055701.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that threatens to open the door widely to businesses being allowed to violate anti-discrimination laws.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Prepare for the Law To Move Even More to the Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aol.com/news/op-ed-supreme-court-term-101525090.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The high court is breaking with tradition by reaching out to decide cases to further its conservative vision even when there is no disagreement among the lower courts.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Scourge of Originalism Is Taking Over Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-scourge-originalism-taking-101544611.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Once considered a fringe philosophy, originalism is now embraced by the conservative court to justify its worst decisions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of Judicial Review]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/justice/in-defense-of-judicial-review/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all its imperfections, the Court is the one branch of government structured to protect minority rights.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ending Roe Is a Pure Exercise of Republican Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/op-ed-ending-roe-is-a-pure-exercise-of-republican-power-wielded-to-reduce-womens-freedom-and-equality/ar-AAYPLo0</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Roe vs. Wade was overruled not because of anything about its reasoning, but because Donald Trump was able to appoint three justices to the court who would end abortion rights.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Justice for a Progressive Future]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/justice/justice-for-a-progressive-future-ketanji-brown-jackson/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What really matters is how Ketanji Brown Jackson can help turn American law in a more progressive direction decades from now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Court and the Rise in Vigilantism]]></title>
							<link>https://prospect.org/justice/the-court-and-the-rise-in-vigilantism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Friday's ruling on Texas's new anti-abortion law makes it possible to undo long-established rights.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Court's Conservatives Now Have Free Rein]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-supreme-courts-conservatives-101506996.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The court's majority is poised to reshape constitutional rights and protections in ways this nation has not seen in generations.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Sotomayor Tells the Truth About Supreme Court]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/01/opinions/justice-sonia-sotomayor-us-supreme-court-chemerinsky/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why have five Supreme Court justices spoken out publicly about the court's reputation in recent weeks? Several conservative justices have argued strenuously that the court should not be seen in political terms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are SCOTUS Justices 'Partisan Hacks'? Yes]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-supreme-court-justices-110032082.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Time and again the court's Republicans have issued decisions strongly favoring the GOP in the electoral process. That's not a coincidence.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[PA Court Is Right in Overturning Cosby's Conviction]]></title>
							<link>https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-pennsylvania-court-got-214947590.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Erwin Chemerinsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not a word in the state Supreme Court's decision exonerates Cosby of his crimes. But the Constitution must be followed even when it means guilty people go free.]]></description>
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