5 Jun 2023 7:17 pm
Well, that ascription destroys your credibility. You are a bigot.
Well, even though you are a bigot, not worth spit, I'll comment on your rebuttal.LAURENCE TRIBE
He has been called a sellout and a traitor whose arguments are “baseless” and “far-fetched” by professors at New York University, Harvard, and Georgetown.
First link is an article by Jeremy P Jacobs, a rather young correspondent for C-Span.
He's a young journalist. So, I'm going to take his word for it? I think not.
The second links to Law Professor Jody Freeman, but the accusation of 'baseless' is merely on one point.
You write like she is indicting the entire body of Tribe's work, and that is clearly not true. So, that one
is disingenuous, on your part.
So, how about 'far-fetched'? It's a link to an Op-ed by Law Professor Richard L. Revesz. But, again, you make it appear like he is indicting Tribe's entire body of work, and that's another disingenuous implication on your part, he merely has a bone to pick on one of Tribe's conclusions. Hell, if I had to list all of the disagreements of legal scholars on points, I'd exceed the 4000 character limit 50 fold. And your links to academia are redundancies, so you are padding your argument, and old pseudo debate trick.
But your most egregious pseudo debate trick is an old one, 'attack-the-messenger' (rather than the merits of the argument). That tactic might be valid for a nitwit like Alex Jones, but not Lawrence Tribe. Tribe has earned the respect of many legal scholars, including Obama, whose policy Tribe once chided.
But your quote actually comes from an article in the New Yorker, which you did not link to:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... e-sell-out
That article, the one you actually drew your quote from, describes Tribe in much more respectful tones.
Tribe has long been among the nation’s most highly regarded law professors. He is a gifted writer and thinker; his treatise "American Constitutional Law" gained deservedly canonical status in the nineteen-eighties. Over that decade, Tribe also built a strong reputation as a practitioner of constitutional law by arguing a series of high-profile Supreme Court cases, the best known of which was probably the gay-rights case Bowers v. Hardwick. This left him in a unique position. “Never before in American history has an individual simultaneously achieved Tribe’s preeminence both as a practitioner and as a scholar of constitutional law,” William Powell wrote in 1986.
So, objectivity is not your strong suit. That plus bigotry equals:
FAIL
But, I suppose I can't expect much more from a bigot.
In short, your rebuttal is not persuasive.