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...group of prominent law professors—including two from Harvard Law School (HLS)—wrote a letter earlier this week to Congressional leaders in which they rebutted the Bush Administration’s legal case for permitting spying on American citizens. Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 and Ames Professor of Law Phillip B. Heymann, a former deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration, were among the 14 signers. The letter was largely a point-by-point response to a formal defense of the domestic spying program issued by the Department of Justice...
...according to Tribe, the family leave ruling and the abortion case will not figure prominently in his prepared statement before the Senate committee. “I can tell you that I don’t plan to repeat the emphasis of the op-ed I wrote, although it’s possible I might mention the abortion and/or family and medical leave cases as part of one or another larger theme,” Tribe wrote in an e-mail...
...Instead, Tribe wrote that his testimony would emphasize “the problem of unfettered executive power, and the reasons to worry about Alito in connection with such power...
...count, Tribe has been invited to appear before House and Senate committees “roughly 125 times.” He has testified on 42 occasions, including two Supreme Court confirmation hearings...
...three months earlier, Tribe had helped the Senate Democrats plan their drive to block a conservative judge, Robert H. Bork, from gaining a spot on the high-court bench. The professor played the role of “Judge Bork” in a practice session as then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden, Jr., D-Del., honed his cross-examination tactics, according to a 1987 Washington Post report. And Tribe “served as the keynote speaker for the opposition” at the Bork hearings, according to a New York Times report that same year...