Laurence Tribe
Tribe remembers Obama as one of his best students in his 40 years of teaching constitutional law at Harvard. Tribe has argued three dozen cases before the Supreme Court, and he literally wrote the textbook on constitutional law used across the country. He argued Vice President Gore’s side in Bush v. Gore, the Florida vote-counting case, before the Supreme Court in 2000, so it’s no wonder that he is part of the team that Obama has assembled to respond to any voting irregularities or other legal issues that arise in the campaign.
A leading liberal scholar, Tribe, 66, is also an active member of an ad hoc group of policy experts who advise Obama on habeas corpus and other constitutional concerns, as well as on increasing Americans’ access to the justice system. Tribe told National Journal that he and other legal affairs advisers worked on a set of policy proposals — but that Obama’s own ideas were better. “He’s very interested always in finding common ground,” Tribe said. “It’s not so much finding the midpoint on a line where people are arranged from left to right, but finding a way to get an angle that’s perpendicular — or comes at the line from a different angle.”
When I was in law school the book for ConLaw was Tribe’s, my Professor had been Tribe’s student. I went in a young lefty in 1984 and come out a hard core righty. I believed in a living document when I started and was like Cruz, an originalist, at the end.
Tribe has been a Constitutional authority forever - you can’t become a lawyer without bumping into him. And what he says is simply truth, whether anyone likes it or not, the law on NBC and its impact on POTUS eligibility, is not, settled. The Cruzers need to get the matter into a forum with jurisdiction and resolved - starting yesterday. Crowing back and forth at each other will not resolve a thing.