Law school dean fired for liberal ‘political views.’
About a week ago, the new law school at the University of California at Irvine hired Erwin Chemerinsky, a well-known constitutional scholar, as the school’s inaugural Dean. But yesterday, Michael V. Drake, Irvine’s chancellor, fired him, “saying that he had not been aware of how Chemerinsky’s political views would make him a target for criticism from conservatives.” Chemerinsky confirmed his firing to the Wall Street Journal today:
The chancellor “said he hadn’t expected that I would be such a target for conservatives, a lightning rod. It’s clear that significant opposition developed,” though the chancellor didn’t specify where it was coming from. […]
“Obviously I’m sad because it’s something I was excit[ed] about. I’m angry because I don’t believe anyone liberal or conservative should be denied a position like this because of political views.”
(HT: Atrios)
UPDATE: The LA Times notes that April 2005, Chemerinsky “was named one of ‘the top 20 legal thinkers in America’ by Legal Affairs magazine.”
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Who was whining about stalanist tactics used to suppress free speech yesterday?
September 12th, 2007 at 4:00 pmtime to take the conservatives out back and kick all their butts.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:01 pmIt seems to me the chancellor should be the target of a good deal of criticism for this — then maybe he’d fire himself?
September 12th, 2007 at 4:02 pmAnd this from the same California University system that has John Yoo on its faculty at Cal-Berkley; the most disgusting right-wing NeoCon you could find. “Yoo contends that the President, and not the Congress or courts, has sole authority to interpret international treaties such as the Geneva Convention “because treaty interpretation is a key feature of the conduct of foreign affairs”.[7] His positions on executive power, collectively termed the Yoo Doctrine or Unitary executive theory, are controversial since it is suggested the theory holds that the President’s war powers place him above any law.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo
What a stack of hypocrites in this system.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:04 pmChemsky is a good lib not like the moonbat here at TP
September 12th, 2007 at 4:06 pmwell, hopefully, the UC students, staff and citizens
September 12th, 2007 at 4:06 pmwill align and speak out, together, to rectify this
unjust and spineless firing…
chancellor drake needs to “reconsider” his position…
…
A bunch of comments at the WSJ Law Blog.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:06 pmChemsky is a good/lib, not like the moonbats here at TP.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:07 pmMaybe they should just give us all little paper badges with the letter “L” on it. Then they could persecute liberals more easily in this country.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:07 pmnull
September 12th, 2007 at 4:07 pmAnother blow to freedom of speech. I really miss America. Has anyone seen her lately?
September 12th, 2007 at 4:07 pmOh, they’re afraid of conservatives, are they?
September 12th, 2007 at 4:10 pmWho can argue? if you’re going to teach the “law” these days, the students should learn it straight from the corrupt mouth of a Repticon in all its black-hearted glory. A lawyer schooled in fair play and open-mindedness will be eaten alive upon graduation.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:11 pmConservatives want to teach kids what to think not how to think. This is all part of their plan. Little yellow armbands next.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:12 pmDisgusting. Just disgusting.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:12 pmWhat’s the likelihood that a wealthy neocon benefactor such as Richard Mellon Scaife promised a large donation if Chemerinsky was fired? If he’s replaced with a Scalia or Alito clone, any lingering questions will be definitively answered.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:14 pmObviously, the Chancellor wanted to make sure that the Law School graduates were going to be able to find jobs. And we all know that only card carrying conservatives get the jobs nowadays….
September 12th, 2007 at 4:18 pmUSAF; It’s neo-Nazis bastards like you who are dragging this country back to the medieval era.
Comment by Uncle Ho — September 12, 2007 @ 4:17 pm
Ignore it, Ho. It’s just Mr Pee again.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:19 pmJust like the good little Nazis they are, America’s right wingers are orchestrating their own “gleichschaltung” on America’s institutions of higher learning.
If you do not conform to the Nazi right winger’s rigid views, you cannot attain a higher position, just like in Nazi Germany when Hitler was silencing Liberal voices.
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Gleichschaltung
The Nazi party’s desire for total control required the elimination of all other forms of influence. The period from 1933 to around 1937 was characterized by the systematic elimination of non-Nazi organizations that could potentially influence people, such as trade unions and political parties. Those critical of Hitler’s agenda, especially his close ties with industry, were suppressed or intimidated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung
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The Nazi Proscription of German Professors of International Law
September 12th, 2007 at 4:20 pmhttp://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9300(193901)33%3A1%3C112%3ATNPOGP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y
Berkeley hired John Yoo. And he constantly bashes even them.
They are all cowards.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:20 pmThis IS Orange County, CA after all — and everybody knows that in Repub land, only the right wing view is tolerated.
Kind of wonder what they’re afraid of. Maybe that the students might learn how to think?
September 12th, 2007 at 4:21 pmany chance of a lawsuit? please? pretty please?
UCD Aggie
September 12th, 2007 at 4:21 pmChemerinsky is a liberal but he’s hardly a Leftist or a radical, it seems wrong to have fired him considering that UC Irvine has many professors much farther to the Left.
There’s something fishy about this story….Something is missing.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:22 pmThe should not have fired him. What is wrong with one more ultra far left college anyways? It would just add to the millions already running.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:24 pmgunmitch; thanx for the warning. Just how many aliases do these schizoids need?
September 12th, 2007 at 4:25 pmWhoo! UCD Aggie!
Any who… even if the roles were reversed and he was a neo con etc, I would feel the same about it. Firing someone for their political views (ha! and of all things in LAW, the governments actions are seeping into the education world) last I checked was on the no-no list.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:26 pmThere’s something fishy about this story….Something is missing.
Comment by Ringo — September 12, 2007 @ 4:22 pm
There is a reference in one of the linked articles that explains it, I think. The Dean and the Board of Regents were hoping to get a lot more money from one specific donor, who had already given them a big chunk of cash, and this particular donor is extremely conservative. It may well be that he had a particular issue with Chemerinsky and let someone know he wasn’t happy.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:26 pmHis name was too close to Chomsky; the college was just trying to avert communist subversion by another aging hippie.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:26 pmCould someone explain to me why Mr. Chemerinsky’s views weren’t known before he was hired ? So UC hires Deans without checking their vitae ?
Not to mention, what is the probability that Mr. Chemerinsky may be able to find tort and even constitutional questions in him apparently being so cavalierly hired and fired for frivolous reasons ?????
September 12th, 2007 at 4:27 pmOxyCon; I fear that we are entering our own Nazi period. The founding fathers must be spinning in their graves.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:27 pmAmerica’s right wingers have alot in common with Iranian radicals and Nazis.
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Purge in Iranian Higher Education:
Islamic Fascism and its Gleichschaltung
by Russell Berman ·
The process by which the Nazis rapidly removed potential regime opponents from the universities and the civil service came to be known as Gleichschaltung. Sometimes translated as “coordination,” the term is much harsher: all concerned are made the same, arranged in a single order, forced into uniformity. All that is different is made identical, and that which is non-identical is eradicated
The Associate Press now reports that Iranian President Ahmadinejad has called for a purge of secular and liberal faculty from the universities. In fact, precisely such a purge of liberals and leftists took place in the wake of the Islamic Revolution of 1979—which makes it even more curious that parts of the western left somehow still look to Iran as a positive anti-imperialist force—but some reformist elements have later reemerged. The current call for renewed attacks on intellectuals indicates an effort to amplify the regime’s extremist position. It surely shatters any hope that the recent release from prison of critical intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo (discussed here on August 31) would initiate a liberalization.
” Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Tuesday for a purge of liberal and secular teachers from the country’s universities, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported in another step back to 1980s-style radicalism. . . . Ahmadinejad complained that changes in the country’s universities were difficult to accomplish and that the country’s educational system had been affected by secularism for the last 150 years, but said ’such a change has begun.’”
This surely is an uncanny parallel to aspects of European fascism, an effort to roll back what is presented as centuries of modernization. Of course, such an appeal for a “return” does not necessarily mean a bona fide retrieval of traditionalist patterns: but in the name of an instrumentalized traditionalism, a brutalizing and unfree modernity begins to unfold. This emphatic anti-liberalism coupled with Ahmadenijad’s signature anti-Semitism certainly corroborates the “Islamic fascism” thesis.
“Earlier this year, Iran retired dozens of liberal university professors and teachers. And last November, Ahmadinejad’s administration for the first time named a cleric to head the country’s oldest university in Tehran amid protests by students over the appointment.
“The developments followed a campaign promise by Ahmadinejad for a more Islamic-oriented country. He took office last August.
“Since then, Ahmadinejad also has been replacing pragmatic veterans in the government with former military commanders and inexperienced religious hard-liners.
“Ahmadinejad’s aim appears to be to install a new generation of rulers who will revive the fundamentalist goals pursued in the 1980s under the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, father of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran.”
http://www.telospress.com/ main/ index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=129
September 12th, 2007 at 4:28 pmActually, conservatives are good, liberals are bad. What is the big fuss about?
September 12th, 2007 at 4:28 pmEver slouching toward the right wingers’ dream of fascist totalitarianism. Anyone care to guess at the reaction if a law school fired anyone for being too conservative? These right wing rats are going to deserve the ship they get.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:29 pmYou couldnt just give the link, you had the post a mile long rant that has NOTHING to do with the thread topic?
You do realize that bandwidth costs money and you soak it up with crap like this?
September 12th, 2007 at 4:30 pmFree speech, we don’t need no stinkin’ free speech.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:31 pmgunmitch; thanx for the warning. Just how many aliases do these schizoids need?
Comment by Uncle Ho — September 12, 2007 @ 4:25 pm
Pee gets bounced from commenting on a regular basis, and comes back with at least one login name at a time, frequently more. If in doubt, you can always check where the name is linked. Most of the time, he can’t resist linking to his own psychoblog; in this case, look at the URL and you’ll see what I mean. You don’t need to actually click on it, just put the cursor on the hypertext link and look at where it’s pointing.
I’m not sure what the little psycho will do when TP finally succeeds in establishing registration; he’s already been driven batty because he’s not welcome at TPZoo. Maybe he’ll melt down completely.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:31 pm“UC Irvine has many professors much farther to the Left.”
That seems unlikely since it’s a brand new law school. Looks like it’ll be another Pepperdine.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:32 pmGuess what? The chancellor is black? WTF? He doesn’t like liberals? YOU’RE BLACK! HELLO?
September 12th, 2007 at 4:33 pmCould someone explain to me why Mr. Chemerinsky’s views weren’t known before he was hired ? So UC hires Deans without checking their vitae ?
Not to mention, what is the probability that Mr. Chemerinsky may be able to find tort and even constitutional questions in him apparently being so cavalierly hired and fired for frivolous reasons ?????
Comment by MapleStreet — September 12, 2007 @ 4:27 pm
His opinions have apparently been widely known and he’s certainly made no effort to cover them up. One would think that, yes, a little due diligence would be required when hiring the Dean of a law school. Looks to me like the Chancellor screwed the pooch and I’ll bet the Board of Regents is busy backing away fast.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:33 pmOxyCon; I fear that we are entering our own Nazi period. The founding fathers must be spinning in their graves.
Comment by Uncle Ho
They are spinning like a top, sir…’Dude, where’s my country?’
September 12th, 2007 at 4:34 pmUniversity Students and Faculty:
Spare us the BS. Cons and repukes HAVE already ruined the country. You tards are special. Enjoy your war.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:35 pmAnyone care to guess at the reaction if a law school fired anyone for being too conservative?
Not a law school, but this issue seems to cut across the political divide.
http://www.issues-views.com/ index.php/ sect/ 1005/ article/ 1082
September 12th, 2007 at 4:35 pmchancellor@uci.edu
Let him hear it
September 12th, 2007 at 4:36 pmlaw@uci.edu is their email address, if anyone wished to express their opinion to the UC-Irvine law school.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:37 pmmaybe he’ll meltdown completely- comment by gummitch
One can only pray that it happens.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:42 pmFreedom in America - say good bye.
Dissent in America - Thomas Jefferson is rolling in his grave - what he valued is tossed away by a weak-kneed chancellor who is afraid that the conservatives will write him nasty letters.
Chicken-shit. Trample the Constitution rather than stand up for it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if coercion were involved. Bribery? In a law school.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:44 pmJust how many aliases do these schizoids need?
Comment by Uncle Ho — September 12, 2007 @ 4:25 pm
Not sure it can keepup with how many it has.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:45 pmPee-Brain changes names faster than a baby needs it’s diaper changed.
But, unlike a baby, Pee-Brain still remains full of sh!t
They can always go over to Peperdine and get Kmiec. He’s a big favorite of Starr and other selfish republicans.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:46 pmWhat is wrong with one more ultra far left college anyways? It would just add to the millions already running. - Comment by Roger_Roger
Why do like showing us just how stupid and ignorant you really are?
Is being stupid something your kind thrive on?
And why do you post such untrue statements all the time?
Do you really think that any of us are going to suddenly think that you are right?
Go back to bed your sister is waiting for you.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:52 pmWho needs a government crackdown when the intelligencia is willing to consume itself. Hitler would be happy with UCI.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:52 pmChemerinsky used to be (still is?) a law professor of Constitutional law at the USC Law School. USC is known as the “university for spoiled children” and is a very conservative place. Chemerinsky is liberal but he’s not really “out there” and generally has very sound reasoning behind his views. His was one of the main voices that found fault with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision when they decided to cut off the counting of votes in Florida and pronounce Bush the winner in 2000. Chemerinsky wrote an article about it in the “California Lawyer” publication, the official journal for members of the California bar. It was a very well-reasoned piece, not a crazy rant. I can’t believe some of the ultra right-wing lawyers who criticized Chemerinsky for that article, without really refuting the facts. I sent Chemerinsky a congratulatory e-mail to his office e-mail address at USC for that interesting opinion piece. I think any law school would be lucky to have Chemerinsky as a Dean, as he is one of the premier legal scholars in the country on Constitutional law.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:55 pmYou mean if they hired a conservative, and his conservative viewpoints
September 12th, 2007 at 4:55 pmmake him a target for criticism from liberals, they’d fire him??
This is a public system but ‘donations’ some how speak louder than common sense. A well-rounded education sometimes escapes the chancellors.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:57 pmOver the past 7 years, the minorities (that would include Chancellor Drake), elderly, homosexuals, and working middle to lower classes who vote for, support and capitulate to these radical authoritarian fascists, will go down in history among the biggest tools in the history of mankind.
September 12th, 2007 at 4:58 pmI guess the Falwell School of Law and Diesel Mechanics isn’t spewing enough Righties for the “System”? Who’da thunk?
September 12th, 2007 at 5:00 pmHey trolls, maybe you can come up some examples of conservatives being fired for their political views?
Yeah didn’t think so.
September 12th, 2007 at 5:05 pmThis is truly extraordinary, to so quickly fire someone whose legal scholarship is absolutely first rate and whose political views were well known to everyone on the search committee and to those who actually made the hiring decision.
Which leads to only one question. What coalition of right wingnut billionaires and politicos got to them and demanded his resignation, threatening dire consequences should they not comply? Names please.
September 12th, 2007 at 5:13 pmClarification: The right wing rats are going to deserve the SINKING ship they’re creating.
September 12th, 2007 at 5:21 pmI wonder if Friends of Hugh Hewitt are behind the firing.
September 12th, 2007 at 5:21 pmThe Media
The Schools
The Injustice System
Corporatocracy…where dollars rule and the tyranny of the rich abounds.
I guess the “public” UC system has now been privatized and our tax dollars are being used to establish Corporate Agendas.
September 12th, 2007 at 5:32 pmCommunity & Government Relations Contacts:
Liz TOOMEY
Assistant Vice Chancellor
Community and Government Relations
Phone: (949) 824-7382
FAX: (949) 824-1707
E-mail: eatoomey@uci.edu
Kathleen EILER
Associate Director of Advocacy
Phone: (949) 824-5227
FAX: (949) 824-1707
E-mail: keiler@uci.edu
Lars WALTON
Assistant Director of Federal Relations
Phone: (949) 824-8686
FAX: (949) 824-1707
Email: lwalton@uci.edu
Ellen LU
Community Relations Coordinator
Phone: (949) 824-0376
FAX: (949) 824-1707
Email: ellen.lu@uci.edu
Patricia ROWLAND
September 12th, 2007 at 5:33 pmAdministrative Assistant
Phone: (949) 824-0061
FAX: (949) 824-1707
Email: prowland@uci.edu
Please email the links provided. This garbage has to stop. I’ve already done my part. It’s still business hours out there in Cali, you know.
DO IT NOW!
September 12th, 2007 at 5:37 pmGosh and David Horowitz spends all that time, money and energy on his cross-country whining tour crying about all the liberal bias at the nation’s universities. Will Horowitz protest that someone here has been fired for his political views? I’m guessing no.
September 12th, 2007 at 5:47 pmWhat is needed now is that no one worth his or her salt as a scholar and administrator takes the job. when they can only get a new grad out of Pepperdine Law to head up their new school, perhaps firing someone for his politcal views before he even starts the job will be re-evaluated as a recruitment strategy.
September 12th, 2007 at 5:57 pmSir its called a purge… you know… fascists do a purge or two before they totally take over… usually going after the legal institutions (DOJ) and the intellectuals first. And they dont start off by killing people… they take the power first.. and make all their illegal actions legal… THEN they start the killing.
September 12th, 2007 at 6:11 pm“Actually, conservatives are good, liberals are bad. What is the big fuss about?”
Spoken like a good little totalitarian fascist.
September 12th, 2007 at 6:19 pmFor conservatives, the problem with Chemerinsky is clearly spelled out by the LA Times: He is one of the “the top 20 legal thinkers in America”.
See, the emphasis is on thinker. Chemerinsky thinks too much and is not a good sheep.
Thinking and conservatives do not mix all too well. Conservative leaders need sheep, not thinkers. The trolls in every thread at ThinkProgress are proof of that.
September 12th, 2007 at 6:25 pmGiven that the man is a thinker, what possible use would he be to a UNIVERSITY?
September 12th, 2007 at 7:09 pmI’m so sick of conservatives trying to stifle anything that isn’t implicitly regressive.
Quite frankly, I’d think Republicans would be much more pleasant, given that Ignorance is Bliss.
Several prominent conservative and libertarian law/bloggers (who actually know or are colleagues of Chermerinsky’s) are defending him, and his work.
Check out Memeorandum, you may be surprised.
BobC @ #60 - Hewitt is Chemerinsky’s strongest advocate by far.
September 12th, 2007 at 7:35 pm“The LA Times notes that April 2005, Chemerinsky “was named one of ‘the top 20 legal thinkers in America’ by Legal Affairs magazine.’”
We’ll have none of that! No thinkers allowed in the United States until bush is out of office!
September 12th, 2007 at 7:48 pmI sent an email to the university administrators given above.
Here is a string of the addresses:
eatoomey@uci.edu; keiler@uci.edu; lwalton@uci.edu; ellen.lu@uci.edu; prowland@uci.edu
And, remember next time you meet someone from UC-Irvine, this is a low-quality institution presided over by Republican hacks.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:52 pmTrying a mailto link:keiler@uci.edu; lwalton@uci.edu; ellen.lu@uci.edu; prowland@uci.edu” rel=”nofollow”>
September 12th, 2007 at 8:52 pmeatoomey@uci.edu; keiler@uci.edu; lwalton@uci.edu; ellen.lu@uci.edu; prowland@uci.edu
GOOD!
Now Chemerinsky can sue their al Cracker a*ses into poverty…
…he’s smart enough to do it too!
September 12th, 2007 at 9:21 pmThis is so absurd that I almost wonder if it is some kind of hoax! Erwin is as well known for being a liberal as he is for being a brilliant scholar and a kind, compassionate human being. It is not conceivable that UCD was unaware of his political views until now. The only possible explanation is that some wealthy donor threatened to pull the plug. Not too smart to give one of the country’s greatest legal minds a darned good reason to sue them! (Makes me glad I left OC, though!)
September 12th, 2007 at 11:22 pmGuess what? The chancellor is black? WTF? He doesn’t like liberals? YOU’RE BLACK! HELLO?
Comment by lefty
what kind of stereotype is that? I am ‘black’ and I lean towards the views of Bill Cosby- we are not all victims!
September 13th, 2007 at 12:04 amThis has to be the most hate filled blog I have ever been to, I cant believe this is what we libs have sunk to.
September 13th, 2007 at 12:06 amI cant believe this is what we libs have sunk to.
Comment by Carol — September 13, 2007 @ 12:06 am
I think this is a phony post.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:29 amActually, conservatives are good, liberals are bad.
Comment by Liberalismisdead
Now that is a truly sophisticated argument, Liberalismisnotdead/Hillary whackedVince/Neoconsfartterrorists, etc. It sounds as if you’re paraphrasing, “Me, Tarzan. You, Jane.”
September 13th, 2007 at 1:34 amI cant believe this is what we libs have sunk to.
Comment by Carol — September 13, 2007 @ 12:06 am
I think this is a phony post.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity
I agree with you, Rep of Stupidity. Obviously “Carol” has never read Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, or even some of our usual trolls here.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:37 amObviously “Carol†has never read Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, or even some of our usual trolls here.
Comment by Lora — September 13, 2007 @ 1:37 am
Yeah… this also seems to be a new troll tactic, too. Come here and pretend to be liberal, and then cluck at how low “we libs” have sunk.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:40 am“Carol” thinks that this is hate filled? The only hate here is from the fascist trolls. Can’t they get a life? A pathetic toothless moonshine-swilling life?
Academic freedom is at stake here: if a fatcat right-wing donor can hold a university by the balls, higher education no longer rewards free enquiry but only the views of the wealthy elite.
What’s next? Turfing out the entire science faculty, just because some right-wing wacko thinks the earth was created in six days, 6000 years ago? Forcing American literature professors to put Ayn Rand on their required reading lists? Making a bonfire on campus with all the books that carry ‘dangerous’ liberal ideas?
September 13th, 2007 at 2:32 amI am a product of the California educational system (public school and college). We were once a bit more tolerant than thuis. And, the system had a decent reputation–even during the 1960s uprising. This firing is a disgrace–the 1st A is cut apart and, more important, one of the best legal minds in the country will not be running a UCal institution. Time for mediocrity to continue its assault on Calif. education.
September 13th, 2007 at 8:04 amwalt brasch (prof. of journalism, Bloomsburg University of Pnnsylvania)
Carol is what is known as a Concern Troll…
September 13th, 2007 at 9:13 amComment by Aren
My point is that it’s very similar to gay men who work for the white corporate masters when those masters would seek to legislate prejudice against them. It’s sick.
It has nothing to do with anyone being a victim. It has to do with doing the bidding of those who hate you. The Republicans represent the old white-black paradigm, master and slave. The GOP are the political descendents of the slave-owning plantation owners.
I just think that conservative blacks or maybe in this case a black man who allows himself to be intimidated into doing their bidding are even worse than your average conservative enabler, considering the irrefutable bigotry of the rightwing.
Did the indifference and then outright contempt for the horrible response to the mess in New Orleans not convince you enough that the rightwing in this country hates you as a black man? Really? And then you have this guy who caves in to the political agenda of yet another Rich White Man who might get mad because there’s a dirty liberal as a Dean. Come on.
September 13th, 2007 at 9:28 amIf only he had led a war crimes worthy invasion of a non-threatening country to topple a “bad player” installed by our government in the first place-instead of being one of the top twenty legal minds in the United States. Guess he won’t be gettiing a job at Stanford either. Doesn’t it just make you feel warm and fuzzy inside to see what the Ivy League is putting on the market to lead our industry and government? Sure explains alot.
September 13th, 2007 at 12:39 pmIf what UC is looking for is someone with the right ideology for the job, I have one suggestion:
YOO DA MAN!
September 13th, 2007 at 2:21 pmThe chancellor “said he hadn’t expected that I would be such a target for conservatives, a lightning rod. It’s clear that significant opposition developed,†though the chancellor didn’t specify where it was coming from. […]
“Obviously I’m sad because it’s something I was excit[ed] about. I’m angry because I don’t believe anyone liberal or conservative should be denied a position like this because of political views.â€
A conservative would’nt have an opportunity like this because of their views. And if a conservative was denied, you would feel whole that a republican was shut out and denied because of it. BS story.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:14 pmA conservative would’nt have an opportunity like this because of their views. And if a conservative was denied, you would feel whole that a republican was shut out and denied because of it. BS story.
Comment by Johnny Swank
So are you saying that John Yoo at UC Berkeley isn’t a conservative? And your second-to-last sentence makes no sense–which isn’t surprising coming from you.
September 13th, 2007 at 6:30 pmEarlier comments mentioned something being missing.
Yes, there is.
Who bribed the regents into dumping Chemerinsky?
I have a hunch who it might have been: the Federalist Society.
This is a creepy organization that has its tentacles spread throughout our legal system. It’s a cancer that has been silently growing within the body politic for many years. And like all good cancers, it needs to be excised before it can do any further damage.
September 13th, 2007 at 7:16 pm