Kenneth Starr, of Clinton impeachment fame, is welcome to be dean at California’s Pepperdine Law School. John Eastman, Republican nominee to the House and member of the Reagan administration, is welcome to be dean at California’s Chapman Law School. Erwin Chemerinsky, an imminent constitutional law scholar from Duke named “one of the top 20 legal thinkers in America,” had accepted the deanship of the soon-to-be-opened University of California at Irvine Law School but has been fired before he can start. His problem? Too liberal. It seems that he wrote an op-ed criticizing Alberto Gonzales, and suddenly Chemerinsky was too “controversial” in the words of the UC Chancellor who fired him shortly after the op-ed appeared.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1250652