To the editor:
Yet again, the Los Angeles Times gets it wrong regarding Gov. Newsom’s decision to sign Senate Bill 27.
SB 27 has been interpreted as constitutional by some of our nation’s foremost constitutional lawyers, including Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. The challenges to the law are motivated by partisanship and the desire to shield Donald Trump from any accountability for his conflicts of interest, violations of the Emoluments Clause, and other crimes that he has possibly committed.
Instead of echoing Republican talking points, the Los Angeles Times should be supporting the utilization of every possible legal tool in order to hold this lawless administration accountable.
Joshua Steele, Studio City
Note from KBJ: Has Erwin Chemerinsky been right about any legal issue in the past several years? He is a partisan political hack, not a dispassionate legal analyst. If Chemerinsky says that provision X is constitutional, there is a very good chance that it is unconstitutional; and if he says that X is unconstitutional, there is a very good chance that it is constitutional.
