Judge Michael Luttig, a Scalia protege, just called Prof Laurence Tribe

[pnwmom]

Last edited Tue Jan 31, 2023, 07:04 PM - Edit history (1)

the greatest legal mind of our times -- in a tweet congratulating him and the law firm Tribe has just joined.

Judge Luttig was the one who advised Mike Pence that he had no choice but to certify the vote as-is, despite the advice Pence was getting from John Eastman. Luttig testified at the Jan 6 hearing. If you don't recall him, he's the one who spoke so slowly people wondered if he'd had a stroke. He hadn't. He spoke slowly because he wanted the truth of his words to have time to sink in.

CONGRATULATIONS, PROF. TRIBE!

Link to tweet

Congratulations
@KaplanHecker
, and heartfelt congratulations
@tribelaw
.

Harvard Professor Emeritus Laurence H. Tribe has been the Nation’s preeminent constitutional scholar for the past half century and few could dispute that he is the greatest legal mind of our times.

In his tweet, Luttig was congratulating the law firm Prof Emeritus Tribe has just joined, along with Tribe himself.

"Now, Laurence "Larry" Tribe is taking his constitutional law talents to Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, which he joined Thursday as of counsel.

"In an interview Thursday with Law360 Pulse, Tribe said he gets numerous requests from public officials and private corporations to work on cases, but had to turn down more work than he would have liked because he didn't have a law firm behind him."

https://www.law360.com/articles/1564941

A clip from Judge Luttig's Jan 6 testimony:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lNLoUGG9Z6o

[Rebl2]

1. I do remember

him and realized why he was speaking slowly, just like you said he wanted his words to sink in to those who were listening.

[Ocelot II]

2. I still have the first edition of Tribe's constitutional law textbook.

Even way back then (late '70s) he was recognized as a first-rate legal scholar. Glad I kept his book even though con law has changed a lot since then, but not always improved.

[aggiesal]

3. I think he.spoke slow, because he was carefully parsing his words before he said them n/t

[japple]

4. Read this piece in WAPO (no paywall) about Jdg. Luttig. And then read

the responses. https://wapo.st/3JrFpSv

[fierywoman]

7. Thank you for the paywall-less link -- much appreciated!

[Joinfortmill]

5. This dude was very impressive at the hearings.

Excellent read.

[czarjak]

6. Judge Putting had to come to grips with Trump's grip on his Conservative foundations.

Or, in Republican vernacular, He Came To Jesus?

[Kali]

8. good article

interesting