Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Laurence Tribe, the Constitutional law prof at Harvard, has concerns about Bernie. [View all]Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)He's always had an anti-Bernie bias and has had to walk back his bullshit in the past.
Tribe makes too much money with the status-quo. He knows Bernie is a threat to rackets such as this:
"Peabody Energy Corp. is set to pay Tribe $435,000 this year to help the bankrupt coal producer challenge the Obama administration's signature environmental law.
The payments to Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law expert and legal icon spanning May to December this year were disclosed in a legal filing tied to Peabody's bankruptcy proceedings. They do not include any money Peabody sent Tribe before its April bankruptcy filing as part of the company's crusade against Obama's Clean Power Plan, which is designed to slash carbon dioxide emissions from power plants 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The program encourages states and utilities to burn less coal and use generate more electricity from cleaner sources such as wind, ...solar"
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided