[FocusNexus]

Actually, Chemerinsky IS a lawyer, a very liberal one.

Obama would probably nominate him to the Supreme Court.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Erwin+Chemerinsky&btnG=Search

[FocusNexus]

Time to Fight the Religious Right
by Erwin Chemerinsky|

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erwin-chemerinsky/time-to-fight-the-religio_b_8048.html

“I believe that the greatest threat to liberty in the United States is posed by the religious right, largely comprised of Christian fundamentalists. Across a broad spectrum of issues they want to move the law in a radically more conservative direction, ultimately threatening our freedom.

This spring, I argued a case in the Supreme Court challenging a six-foot tall, three feet wide Ten Commandments monument that sits between the Texas State Capitol and the Texas Supreme Court.”

[SoCal Pubbie]

You missed the pit of my post. I know he has a law degree, I know he presents cases before the court, I know he's the dean of a law school, right in my backyard. However, IMHO, a true lawyer, outside the court, would present the law as a set of fixed principles that could be applied evenly across a broad spectrum of issues. Chemerinsky does no such thing. His interpretations of the law ALWAYS follow an extreme leftist point of view, and the way he applies statutes or rulings can be very contradictory from one issue to another. As I wrote, he is a political animal, not a lawyer. The words "out of the mainstream" will flow for his lips as often as "habeas corpus" or "rules of evidence."