School of Law

This year’s extraordinary Breakfast Table brain trust includes New York Times opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, civil rights lawyer and founding director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law and Democracy at the Howard University School of Law Sherrilyn Ifill, and Stephen Vladeck, professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center and author of the One First newsletter on Substack.

Emhoff, who received his law degree from USC in 1990, will start the job at the USC Gould School of Law on July 1.

Laborers without legal authorization to live and work in the U.S. make up a significant portion of the workforce, especially in industries such as agriculture and hospitality, said Jean Reisz, co-director of the USC Gould School of Law Immigration Clinic.

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.”

“It is using the military domestically to stop dissent,” said Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law.