Laurence Tribe, One Godfather of the CHYOS Club

 

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People who follow me on Facebook are well aware that I have keyed on contributor Pam Key as a pernicious Fifth Column saboteur of Breitbart’s supposedly conservative mission. She is not a reporter. She does no research, provides no context, and never does ANY fact-checking. She just tapes MSNBC and CNN broadcasts, plays them into her word processor’s dictation function, then adds a few “he saids” and “she continued’s” to the resulting copy before emailing it to the boss. To paraphrase Truman Capote, this isn’t journalism, it isn’t writing, it isn’t even typing.


She seeks out, exclusively, irrelevant and usually agèd patriarchs of the seventies new left — Carl Bernstein, Robert Woodward, John Dean, Geraldo Rivera, et al — that ran Nixon out of office, because they’re the ones who in their dotage want to pull off the same trick one more time and get angrier and angrier every day that Trump remains a free and potent force.


And she especially loves Laurence Tribe. With this in mind, take a gander at my FB riposte to her latest Tribe propaganda:


FTA: All right. We’ve been here before with Pam Key. Laurence Tribe, 80, is a formerly eminent, now discredited Harvard Law Professor (Emeritus) who has outlived his competence, his legal and personal ethics, and his reputation. His increasingly paranoid nuttiness is an open secret nevertheless kept by the many members of CHYOS (see pinned post above) he sponsored for political reasons at Harvard (See Wiki lede below). He is NOT an insider anymore. His legal career ended when he became a hack lawyer representing companies he would once have shown the door. He then became a full time left-wing political activist until he finally used up all his credibility, even on the left, to whom he became an agèd embarrassment. Today, he has no access to authentic information. He is a known conspiracy theorist and as such is avoided even by his former friends.


Pam has cited him as a knowledgeable source before. He isn’t. He just isn’t. He is a dyed-in-the-wool Trump hater and will never never ever stop making up shit about Trump. Why Pam has come back to him this time.


This post is timely though. Tribe serves to validate the reality of the CHYOS factor. And in the context of the general untruths being pushed by the Jan 6 Committee and its cheerleaders (like Pam), it serves to verify that the Committee’s existence and purpose are focused not on truth but on the utter destruction of Donald Trump (also like Pam Key). Shame on Breitbart for publishing this.


Facts? Here’s what Wikipedia says about Tribe, and Wiki is no mouthpiece for the right.


FROM WIKI:

<<After graduating from law school, Tribe clerked for justice Mathew Tobriner of the Supreme Court of California from 1966 to 1967, then for justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1967 to 1968. He then joined the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor, receiving tenure in 1972. Among his law students and research assistants while on the faculty at Harvard have been President Barack Obama (a research assistant for over two years),[19] Chief Justice John Roberts,[20] US Senator Ted Cruz,[20] Former D.C. Circuit Chief Judge and Attorney General Merrick Garland,[20] and Associate Justice Elena Kagan.[21] Other notable students of Tribe were U.S. Representative Adam Schiff, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee and lead manager for the first Impeachment of Donald Trump,[22] and Jamie Raskin, lead manager for the second Donald Trump impeachment.[23]


Tribe was part of Al Gore's legal team regarding the results of the 2000 United States presidential election. Due to the close nature of the vote count, recounts had been initiated in Florida, and the recounts had been challenged in court. Tribe argued the initial case in Federal Court in Miami in which they successfully argued that the court should not stop the recount of the votes which was taking place and scheduled to take place in certain counties.[30] David Boies argued for the Gore team in a related matter in the Florida State Courts regarding the dates that Secretary of State of FloridaKatherine Harris would accept recounts.[30] When the original Federal case, Bush v. Gore, was appealed, Gore and his advisers decided at the last minute to have Boies instead of Tribe argue the case at the Supreme Court.[30] The court determined that recounts of votes should cease and that accordingly George W. Bush had been elected president….


Since the mid-1990s, Tribe has represented a number of corporations advocating for their free speech rights and constitutional personhood.[31] Tribe represented General Electric in its defense against its liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act("Superfund"), in which GE and Tribe unsuccessfully argued that the act unconstitutionally violated General Electric's due process rights.[31][32]…


In 2014, Tribe was retained to represent Peabody Energy in a suit against the Environmental Protection Agency. Tribe argued that EPA's use of the Clean Air Act to implement its Clean Power Plan was unconstitutional.[33] Tribe's legal analysis has been criticized by other legal commentators, including fellow Harvard Law School professors Richard J. Lazarus and Jody Freeman, who described his conclusion as "wholly without merit".[34][35] His advocacy for corporations like Peabody has been criticized by some legal experts.[31]…


In December 2016, Tribe and notable lawyers Lawrence Lessig and Andrew Dhuey established The Electors Trust under the aegis of Equal Citizens to provide pro bono legal counsel as well as a secure communications platform for those of the 538 members of the United States Electoral College who were considering a vote of conscience against Donald Trump in the presidential election.[41]


After the dismissal of James Comey in May 2017, Tribe wrote: "The time has come for Congress to launch an impeachment investigation of President Trump for obstruction of justice." Tribe argued that Trump's conduct rose to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors" that are impeachable offenses under the Constitution.[42] He added: "It will require serious commitment to constitutional principle, and courageous willingness to put devotion to the national interest above self-interest and party loyalty, for a Congress of the president's own party to initiate an impeachment inquiry."[42]…


In 2004, Tribe acknowledged having plagiarized several phrases and a sentence in his 1985 book, God Save this Honorable Court, from a 1974 book by Henry Abraham.[44][45] After an investigation, Tribe was reprimanded by Harvard for "a significant lapse in proper academic practice," but the investigation concluded that Tribe did not intend to plagiarize.[46]


Tribe has stirred controversy due to his promotion of conspiracy theories about President Trump's fitness for office.[47][48] Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan harshly criticized Tribe, saying that he "has become an important vector of misinformation and conspiracy theories on Twitter."[47] According to McKay Coppins of The Atlantic, Tribe has been "an especially active booster" of the Palmer Report, "a liberal blog known for peddling conspiracy theories".[49] Tribe removed the posted tweets following the Palmer Report and contests the accuracy of the story of controversy.[47][48][49]>>


So there’s your august legal eminence named Tribe. A pitiful old seditionist. But his tribal offspring are legion. And the Republic is dying of them.


ALSO READ: The CHYOS Club and related posts, including The CHYOS Club-Oxford Connection, The Leaders of the Coup Against the Republic, and Thoughts on Dershowitz.


ALSO: Scroll down after the conclusion of this post for other recommended IPR post, several of which are relevant to this one in different ways.

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