For most of the last year, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky was propagating the “silly” and “obviously fatuous” claim that the Senate had a constitutional duty to hold an up-or-down vote on ...

Kooky as that claim is, a remarkably expansive view of First Amendment rights draws support from a long law-review article by a distinguished scholar by the name of … Erwin Chemerinsky.

The New York Times non-fiction book critic Jennifer Szalai claimed the Constitution was “frozen in amber” while reviewing a ...

Re: “We should all fear the extinction of our democracy” (Dec. 27, Opinion): I, too, fear for our democracy, and columnist Erwin Chemerinsky amply explains the loss of faith in our federal ...

Erwin Chemerinsky is the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at University of California, Irvine School of Law, with a joint ...