Immigration
Oct. 18, 2002
Gilded Cage
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Secret adjudicatory proceedings, whether in a court or an administrative setting, are inconsistent with the First Amendment and risk serious abuses. Following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration imposed secrecy in all deportation hearings involving aliens who "might have connections with or possess information pertaining to terrorist activities against the United States."
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
By Erwin Chemerinsky
Secret adjudicatory proceedings, whether in a court or an administrative setting, are inconsistent with the First Amendment and risk serious abuses. Following the Sept. 11...
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