The third and final part of my Los Angeles Times debate with UC Irvine Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky is now available here.
In this installment, we considered the question of whether “Obama’s runaway victory last November give him a strong mandate to structure the Supreme Court as he likes.” Since we actually don’t disagree that much over the “mandate” issue, I used part of my allotted space to try to sum up the key points of dispute from our earlier exchanges over Sotomayor and judicial empathy.
I am grateful to the Times for organizing this discussion and to Dean Chemerinsky for his insightful contributions to it.
The entire series of posts is available here.