DOJ Places Gag Order on 'Largely Invisible' Laurence Tribe
Noted Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe is facing some constraints in his new, specially created job in the Obama administration as “senior counselor for access to justice.”
Tribe has a small budget and a limited staff, and he is not allowed to speak to the press, the New York Times reports. A noted casebook author, Tribe is “largely invisible” as he strives to improve legal services for the poor in his new Justice Department position, the story says.
“The Justice Department is not allowing him to give interviews,” the Times says, “apparently in part because of nervousness in the administration that his unabashedly liberal views might draw criticism or that Mr. Tribe, described by friends as having a big intellect and a healthy ego, might stray from his assigned lane.”
