Erwin

Just before 9 a.m., two workers from C. Erwin Piper Technical Center carried planks of plywood to City Hall to board up the windows.

While not unprecedented, the dean of UC Berekley’s law school, Erwin Chemerinsky, said it was “stunning.”

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley School of Law, said in a text to The Times that Trump has the authority under the Insurrection Act of 1807 to federalize the National Guard units of states to suppress “any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” that “so hinders the execution of the laws.”

Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation’s leading constitutional law scholars, said “for the federal government to take over the California National Guard, without the request of the governor, to put down protests is truly chilling.”

But as Erwin Chemerinsky, Samuel Bray, and other experts have explained, courts do not traditionally require plaintiffs to post bond when they’re suing the government, especially over violations of civil rights and constitutional law.