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Harvard Law's Laurence Tribe Says What We're All Thinking About The Supreme Court

The Court's legitimacy is 'clearly in question.'

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Famed Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe appeared on MSNBC last night to talk about the awfulness that is the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health that explicitly overturns reproductive freedom.

Pointing to that decision, as well as Justice Clarence Thomas’s refusal to recuse himself in matters related the 2020 election despite his wife’s advocacy of Donald Trump as the winner despite the actual results of said election, Tribe said the Court’s legitimacy is “clearly in question.” Which… yup!

He went on to note the regressive nature of the leaked decision: “We now have a court that is turning the clock back rapidly.”

And he astutely noted that a majority of the country did not support the presidents that put the conservative Supreme Court majority in power. Thanks, electoral college!

“The question of whether a court, many of whose members were put there by presidents who lost the majority of the American people, can impose this regressive, almost Neanderthal minority view on all of us is a really serious question.”

You can watch the full segment below.

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Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).

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