Legal scholars urge Supreme Court to block Trump from ballot
UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky with other prominent scholars filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that Trump’s acts during the January 6 insurrection disqualify him from running for office. They contend that his speech calling for violating the law is not protected under the First Amendment. (San Francisco Chronicle, January 30, 2024, by Bob Egelko) Conservative legal scholar and former judge J. Michael Luttig has been in the forefront in