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Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley Law, said it’s questionable whether the Justice Department or the U.S. marshals would help to enforce any criminal or civil contempt orders against the administration or any of its actors.

“The actions against law firms are blatantly illegal. Capitulating just encourages going after more law firms,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley Law, who tried to rally other law school deans to speak out with him against the White House’s targeting of individual law firms, with limited success.

“It is absurd,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, the UC Berkeley School of Law dean and 1st Amendment scholar who has been critical of some pro-Palestinian protests, including one that took place in his backyard during a law school event last year.

As late as 1935, with a Nazi named Erwin Thaler, he co-authored an article in a trade publication, The Gas Mask, about carbon-monoxide poisoning — a method used years later to kill Jews.

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley Law School, said Issa’s bill was a “terrible idea” that would sow chaos in the federal courts.