37 Quotes by Erwin Chemerinsky

Freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought; it is essential to democratic self-governance; and the alternative-- government censorship and control of ideas-- has always led to disaster.

Words can cause real harm and interfere with a person's education. Campuses have a duty to act-- sometimes legally, always morally-- to protect their students from injury.

Campuses can never punish or censor the expression of ideas, however offensive, because otherwise they cannot perform their function of promoting inquiry, discovery, and the dissemination of new knowledge.

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

She's going to have to establish her competence. The senators have sent a clear message: Show us. Demonstrate to us who you are and why you are qualified.

No other state would impose this kind of sentence.

I would have enthusiastically accepted the offer if more resources had been available. But under these circumstances, I regretfully must decline.

The purpose of the ads is to educate people about the critical importance of separation of church and state.

He's had this tremendous impact in changing the Supreme Court. In almost every area of constitutional law, he's left a mark, and the court's functioning very differently than it used to, and I think he's responsible for that.