Fight! Lessig: Greenwald needs to check his hyperbole. Response: You're 'just wrong'

You know, I love Glenn Greenwald, I repeat his words all the time when I give lectures, as an activist legal scholar.

But the hyperbole in what Glenn is saying here is really something we have to check. He said right at the top of your show that there's a complete blank slate here. That every substantial legal question she has left unanswered.

That is just absurd.

She has written three extraordinarily important pieces mapping out a theory of the First Amendment. That was the first work she did as a scholar at the University of Chicago. And when she came to Harvard in 2000, she wrote what is, I think, one of the most important articles about presidential administration in the last 30 years.

Now, that's two of maybe five central areas of what a justice has to think about that she already has what I think is an extraordinarily important theory. So, the idea that somehow she's been sitting zephyr-like in a way that tries to hide what she`s saying is just silly. What she hasn't done is what frankly people like I have done. What she hasn't done is gone out there and blog and Twitter and been on the road talking about every single issue.

And, frankly, I'm not sure she made the wrong call because what she did by refocusing her energy when she came back to the Harvard Law School is to build an extraordinary institution and define a set of values which I think tell us an extraordinary amount about who this person would be as a Supreme Court justice.