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...bound to convince none of the Court’s nine justices....Claims that giving the state judiciary this sort of power violates some separation-of-powers norm binding on the states are entirely frivolous,” Tribe wrote in an e-mail. Tribe filed an amicus brief in January urging the SJC to support same-sex marriages...
...While we applaud the Harvard Law School faculty members who filed an amicus brief in the case, we remain disappointed and ashamed that Harvard University refused to join FAIR and therefore played no part in today’s victory,” Peter Renn and Sam Tepperman-Gelfant ’00, co-presidents of the Law School student gay rights group Lambda, said in a statement...
...also warns in his letter that “the University must exercise considerable restraint when it comes to the prospect of confronting the government through the quintessentially adversarial act of filing a lawsuit.” Yet it was he who recently directed the University to file an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case over affirmative action at the University of Michigan. We believe that allowing the Law School to join FAIR would be no more confrontational. Harvard would not be a party in the FAIR lawsuit, only a member of the organization and, as such, would...
Weighing in on the past summer’s University of Michigan decision in a jointly issued amicus brief, Harvard joined a chorus of seven other schools affirming their support of race-based affirmative action. Here is traditional Harvard diversity...
...March, Summers and Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe co-wrote a New York Times op-ed declaring their firm support for affirmative action, and the University filed an amicus brief in the recent Supreme Court cases on affirmative action...