Laurence Tribe
Laurence Tribe
Laurence Henry Tribeis a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. He also works with the firm Massey & Gail LLP on a variety of matters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth10 October 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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That kind of free-floating inherent power - the very thing we fought a revolution against - is the very thing the Supreme Court has set its face against.
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That free flowing inherent power is the very thing we fought a revolution against.
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I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.
We need to do something about the culture of violence.
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The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'
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Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.
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No treatise, in my sense of that term, can be true to this moment in our constitutional history - to its conflicts, innovations, and complexities.
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There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.
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It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way.
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Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.
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One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"... Epstein makes an extremely clever but stunningly reductionist argument that the whole Constitution is really designed to protect private property... Can a constitution reflecting as diverse an array of visions and aspirations as ours really be reducible to such as sadly single-minded vision as that?
strong gun government
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.
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An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.
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The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.