Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe Stumps For Obama ( "best student I ever had")

[jefferson_dem]

This is great new. I have huge respect for Professor Tribe.

Top New Hampshire Story: Harvard Professor Stumps For Obama
By Eric Kleefeld - November 14, 2007, 11:07AM

Here's today's key story out of the New Hampshire local press: The Concord Monitor reports that Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe went campaigning in New Hampshire yesterday for his old student, Barack Obama. Tribe will also be making some more campaign stops today, in a sign that the Obama campaign is moving to solidify their base with more affluent, educated voters even as Obama himself is reaching out to the working class.

Tribe called Obama the "best student I ever had" and the "most exciting research assistant, also talked about the issue of judicial appointments. "The next president won't be in a position to make this a liberal court, but he can prevent it from becoming reactionary and moving to unreviewable executive power," Tribe said, adding that Obama shares his views on Constitutional law.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/11/top_new_hampshire_story_harvard_professor_stumps_for_obama.php

[geek tragedy]

1. That's really damn high praise. n/t

[hedgehog]

2. Someone who understands the Constitution well enought to teach it?

What kind of experience is that for a President? Better he should know how to threaten reporters by calling their boss in the middle of the night!

[zulchzulu]

3. K&R

Laurence Tribe is stellar.

[rinsd]

4. Wow. High praise for Obama.

Though I never had any doubts about the man's outstanding academic credentials.

[geek tragedy]

5. Imagine a President who had a profound

understanding of and respect for the Constitution.

[rinsd]

7. That is what gets me thru the rough days.

[jody]

6. Good for Tribe. Sorry however that Obama does not agree with Tribe on the 2nd Amendment

"{The Second Amendment's} central purpose is to arm "We the People" so that ordinary citizens can participate in the collective defense of their community and their state. But it does so not through directly protecting a right on the part of states or other collectivities, assertable by them against the federal government, to arm the populace as they see fit. Rather the amendment achieves its central purpose by assuring that the federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification consistent with the authority of the states to organize their own militias. That assurance in turn is provided through recognizing a right (admittedly of uncertain scope) on the part of individuals to possess and use firearms in the defense of themselves and their homes--not a right to hunt for game, quite clearly, and certainly not a right to employ firearms to commit aggressive acts against other persons--a right that directly limits action by Congress or by the Executive Branch and may well, in addition, be among the privileges or immunities of United States citizens protected by � 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment against state or local government action."

(Laurence H. Tribe, 1 American Constitutional Law 902 n.221 {3d ed. 2000}

[MH1]

8. Which of the candidates do?

It sounds like Tribe is saying the feds can only stop people from owning guns under certain very limited circumstances (nothing unusual there), but he also seems to think states and local governments can't regulate gun ownership.

Which of the Democratic candidates has said that a city like Philadelphia should not be allowed to implement controls on gun ownership? (I think that candidate should move to a certain part of Philly and live for awhile.)

[jody]

12. Neither Dem or Repug re your narrow question but Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico is pro 2nd. n/t

[MH1]

13. That's what I thought

I like Richardson too, btw. I hope he'd find a way to let a city like Philadelphia implement stricter gun control though.

[jody]

14. By "implement stricter gun control" do you mean more laws or enforce current laws? n/t

[jenmito]

9. 5th R. Great news! That's a huge compliment!`

:hi:

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Too bad the media did not pay attention to *'s college professor!

[AtomicKitten]

11. This is a prestigious endorsement and well deserved.

Gobama.

[jefferson_dem]

15. Kick-er-ooooooooo

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