Oct. 19, 2002

Gilded Cage

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Secret adjudicatory proceedings, whether in a court or an administrative setting, are inconsistent with the First Amendment and risk serious abuses. Following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration imposed secrecy in all deportation hearings involving aliens who "might have connections with or possess information pertaining to terrorist activities against the United States."

Erwin Chemerinsky

Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).