Kagen was also the protector of Obamas Harvard advisor, Larry Tribe, campaign committee participant, and perhaps the brains behind supporting McCain, whose ineligibility would provide cover for Obamas. Tribe and same sex marriage hero Ted Olson provided faux legal opinion to the 2008 Senate Res. 511, pretending to fix McCain's ineligibility. Every lawyer knew it could do no such thing, but it distracted from Obamas British father and citizenship at birth., and shut the mouths of any legislative Republicans who might otherwise have raised the very obvious eligibility question about Obama. Harvard Const. Law Professor Larry Tribe was caught having plagiarized a book. He could and probably should have been dismissed, a law professor violating both ethics and copyright laws. But Kagen quietly convened a committee of progressives who talked until it blew over. There was no question of Tribe's complicity - though he blamed an assistant who wrote most of the book for him.
Needs repeating.