Commentary: What do we teach law students when we have no faith in the Supreme Court?
by Erwin Chemerinsky and Jeffrey Abramson, Los Angeles Times
Jan 18, 2022
3 minutes
At the start of this new semester, we face a sobering reality. As law and political science professors, we’re in new territory: instructing our students about the foundations of constitutional law when neither they nor we have faith that the current Supreme Court will respect precedent and approach the law as the institution once had.
It is now clear that the court, with six conservatives — three appointed by Donald Trump — has a different attitude toward interpreting the Constitution and preserving fundamental
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