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)This doesn't sound too liberal to me:
He helped General Electric argue that being ordered to clean up hazardous waste sites on the Hudson River was a violation of its constitutional rights.
He aided Pacific Gas and Electric in complex bankruptcy proceedings, and defended Nike in a suit that claimed the company was lying about its sweatshop practices.
Tribe also helped American Trucking Associations and the Petroleum Marketers Association of America fight common-law claims related to global warming.
More recently, he assisted a hedge fund named Bulldog Investors in trying to block the enforcement of certain securities laws; his argument was based, in part, on the idea that such laws violated the funds First Amendment rights.
In the nineteen-nineties, he worked on multiple cases helping the Bell companies try to avoid or nullify telecommunications regulation, and in the 2009 he helped Time Warner Cable fight net-neutrality rules, based on a theory of corporate First Amendment rights. In short, Tribes representation of Peabody Energy is nothing new. It is rather representative of his work over the past two decades.
In particular, Tribe developed a lucrative practice often premised on invoking his clients constitutional rights as corporate persons to try and avoid federal and state regulations.
Still sound liberal to you?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/did-laurence-tribe-sell-out
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided