17 Quotes by Laurence Tribe

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.

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.

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

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.

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

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.

That kind of free-floating inherent power - the very thing we fought a revolution against - is the very thing the Supreme Court has set its face against.

That free flowing inherent power is the very thing we fought a revolution against.

No treatise, in my sense of that term, can be true to this moment in our constitutional history - to its conflicts, innovations, and complexities.