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A Conversation With Erwin Chemerinsky

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At FindLaw, Wajahat Ali has a conversation with UC-Irvine Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.  It's titled, "Judicial Activism: Playing with the Constitution. An Interview with Constitutional Law Scholar Erwin Chemerinsky on Abortion, the 2nd Amendment, the War on Terror and Guantanamo Bay."  Here's a brief excerpt:ALI: Let's discuss the death penalty. The international human rights community has contentious debates on how the U.S. can maintain such a "progressive image," but at the same time tolerate the death penalty? From a constitutional point of view, is the death penalty "cruel and unusual punishment?" Do we have legal legs to stand on when we support the death penalty in the U.S.? CHEMERINSKY: Well, it all comes down to defining that phrase: "cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 19, 2008 (boomark / email).