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Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings ... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes. — Laurence Tribe

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We need to do something about the culture of violence. — Laurence Tribe

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The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification. — Laurence Tribe

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An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law. — Laurence Tribe

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I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution. — Laurence Tribe

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[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government. — Laurence Tribe

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It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way. — Laurence Tribe

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The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said. — Laurence Tribe

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There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out. — Laurence Tribe

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One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings" ... Epstein makes an extremely clever but stunningly reductionist argument that the whole Constitution is really designed to protect private property ... Can a constitution reflecting as diverse an array of visions and aspirations as ours really be reducible to such as sadly single-minded vision as that? — Laurence Tribe

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Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution. — Laurence Tribe

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The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.' — Laurence Tribe