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A few days after Barack Obama gave that inspiring acceptance speech, having won the Democratic nomination for the presidency, Laurence Tribe, the preeminent constitutional law professor and scholar at Harvard Law School, circulated a letter about just how smart Obama is. Tribe hired him as a research assistant during his first year of law school, something that someone of Tribe’s statute ordinarily wouldn’t do.
Then Obama appointed Tribe as the “access to justice” senior counselor in the Department of Justice to enhance the ability of Americans to find legal counsel and resolve their problems through the fair administration of the rule of law. Tribe, on leave from his teaching position at Harvard, announced he was leaving the DOJ in November 2010.
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