�The administration�s climate rule is far from perfect, but sweeping assertions of unconstitutionality are baseless,� Jody Freeman, director of the environmental law program at Harvard Law School, and Richard Lazarus, an expert in environmental law who has argued over a dozen cases before the Supreme Court, wrote in a rebuttal to Mr. Tribe�s brief on the Harvard Law School website. �Were Professor Tribe�s name not attached to them, no one would take them seriously.�...Tribe says that he's "very comfortable" representing Peabody Energy, because the arguments he needs to make "happened to coincide with what I believe." The NYT provides a quote to cast doubt on Tribe's veracity...
[A] number of legal scholars and current and former members of the Obama administration say that Mr. Tribe has eroded his credibility by using his platform as a scholar to promote a corporate agenda � specifically, the mining and burning of coal.
�Whether he intended it or not, Tribe has been weaponized by the Republican Party in an orchestrated takedown of the president�s climate plan,� said one former administration official.
�That a leading scholar of constitutional matters has identical views as officials of a coal company � that his constitutional views are the same as the views that best promote his client � there�s something odd there,� said Richard L. Revesz, director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.... and a prediction of his social death...
The Republicans who are citing Mr. Tribe�s work are not surprised. Mr. McKenna, the Republican lobbyist, said dryly, �He�s about to be banned from a lot of cocktail parties.�Oh, you poor man, now the only friends you'll have are friends nobody wants.
IN THE COMMENTS: Fernandinande said:
"Were Professor Tribe�s name..."
I first read that as referring to the name of a tribe of "Were-professors," who attack when the moon is full.
