Jonathan Turley Calls Out Harvard’s Laurence Tribe as the Democrats’ ‘Most Wrong Legal Expert’
“Tribe often shows little patience for the niceties of constitutional law or tradition.”
If you are on Twitter or regularly watch cable news, you know about Laurence Tribe, the Trump-hating Harvard law professor who often comes off as a total lunatic.
Professor Jonathan Turley recently called out Tribe in a column for the New York Post:
Laurence Tribe, Democrats’ most wrong legal ‘expert’ in this age of rage
This week, CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” offered what has become a staple of liberal cable news: Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe assuring Democrats that they are justified in an unconstitutional effort while attacking opposing views as “nonsense.”
I was singled out on this occasion for Tribe’s latest personal attack because I voiced a legal opinion different from his own.
Being attacked by Tribe as a “hack” is not as much of a distinction as one might expect.
Indeed, it is relatively tame in comparison to Tribe’s past vulgar and juvenile assaults on others.
Tribe has attacked figures like Mitch McConnell as “McTurtle” and “flagrant d**khead.”
He attacked former Attorney General Bill Barr’s religion and thrills his followers by referring to Trump as a “Dick” or “dickhead in chief.”
Tribe often shows little patience for the niceties of constitutional law or tradition.
He has supported the call for packing the Supreme Court as long overdue.
He has also supported an array of debunked conspiracy theories like denouncing Barr as guilty of the “monstrous” act of shooting protesters in Lafayette Park with rubber bullets to make way for a photo op — a claim found to be utterly untrue.
Some of Tribe’s conspiracy theories are quickly disproven — like his sensational claims of an anti-Trump figure being killed in Russia.
Nevertheless, Tribe remains the “break the glass” academic for Democratic leaders when political expedience requires a patina of constitutional legitimacy.
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One wonders if Tribe has been right about anything. One also wonders why he’s considered a top expert in con law (okay, he did write a widely used textbook).
One does not wonder why not even Democratic presidents have appointed him to the federal bench (let alone SCOTUS).
Tribe has contempt for the Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights
Well, a certain law professor who was a neighbor for a few years always referred to him as “Larry DiaTribe”. His comment has been proven over and over again in the last decade.