[Hardastarboard]

"Even then I saw his ability to quickly grasp the most complicated legal issues and sort them out in a clear, concise fashion,"

Let me see; he probably grasped the following "legal" principles.

The class struggle is a political struggle.

From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs.

The proletariat will rise up and seize the means of production (unless we take their guns away first).

Under a dictatorship of the proletariat, the state will wither away.

[BunnySlippers]

Henry Gates: “Do you know ho I am? You don’t know who you’re dealing with”.

Sounds like an azz.