Feb. 21, 2003

Cell Terror

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Since Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration and the Ashcroft Justice Department have engaged in many practices that involve unprecedented violations of rights. Among the most troubling has been the claim of the authority to detain individuals without complying with the Constitution and without any semblance of due process. So far, the judiciary simply has deferred to the administration.

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).