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...first Supreme Court appearance since December 2004, Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 argued that the property rights of Harvey F. Robbins, the Wyoming rancher he was representing, were violated when the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) took retaliatory action against him for failing to give the government access to a road...
...They ransacked his cabin, they got a neighbor to run a truck into him when he was on horseback, they fabricated felony charges against him,” Tribe said. “All because he wouldn’t bow to their demands...
...argument, Tribe claimed that the Fifth Amendment protects citizens from facing retaliation from the government for excluding the government from private property...
...view, the Fifth Amendment protects you not only from having your property taken without just compensation, but it also protects you from being subject to government retaliation,” Tribe said in a phone interview from Washington after his appearance before the court. “That’s the case here...
...players--Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former White House counsel Harriet Miers, political shaman Karl Rove--all rose from the tight web of Texas loyalists who owe their careers to George W. Bush and followed him to Washington in 2001. Bush even chose a member of his Texas tribe who wasn't implicated, counselor Dan Bartlett, for the task of defending those who were. Said Bartlett of the firings: "All the decisions ... were proper decisions...