Ragefully Wrong: A Response to Professor Laurence Tribe JONATHAN TURLEY
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.
I have long disagreed with Tribe over his strikingly convenient interpretations of the Constitution.
Jonathan Turley.