Constitutional Law

Berkeley Law Professor and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, John Yoo, joins the podcast to discuss how the Court came to this decision, their expected ruling on presidential immunity, and its implications for the 2024 presidential race.

“In overruling Roe, these justices said that the issue of abortion should be left to the political process and not the courts,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “Hopefully, they will follow this approach and not now be so hypocritical as to impose their views.”

“The best option is to leave content moderation to social media companies and encourage them to do a better job of it,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “This avoids the 1st Amendment problems of government regulation and the nightmare of unregulated social media.”

Dean Chemerinsky writes about the US Supreme Court case Trump v. Anderson.

“This case provides the court with an opportunity to show that it follows the law and the facts, not just the political preferences of the justices,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

“The court should never fail to enforce the Constitution because of the political preferences of the justices or for the sake of political expediency,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. “But that is exactly what is likely to happen in Trump v. Anderson.”

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky writes about some of the most important cases of the Supreme Court term.

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky joins host Scott Shafer to discuss the legal perils Trump is facing.

“I live in frustration. And as you heard, every loss truly traumatizes me in my stomach and in my heart. But I have to get up the next morning and keep on fighting,” Sotomayor, the court’s senior liberal member, said at an event at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

“And to be almost 70 years old, this isn’t what I expected,” Sotomayor said Monday during an appearance at the University of California, Berkeley’s law school. “But it is still work that is all consuming and I understand the impact the court has on people and on the country, and sometimes the world. And so it is what keeps me going.”