How will you spend your Thanksgiving break?
When WSN's website announced Laurence Tribe as the all-university commencement speaker last week, commenter DK wrote, "This is fantastically boring."
Maybe DK didn't read up on Tribe.
Born in 1941, Tribe attended Harvard University where he received a BA in mathematics in 1962 and his JD from the law school in 1966.
He worked as a law clerk for a justice on the California Supreme Court and later the U.S. Supreme Court. Known as one of the most liberal counselors, Tribe has fought 34 cases before the Supreme Court, many of them high-profile headline-grabbers.
In 1986, Tribe defended Michael Hardwick in the Supreme Court case Bowers v. Hardwick, against a Georgia law that makes it illegal for consenting adults to have anal or oral sex. That law was upheld in the Court's decision.
In 2000, Tribe worked with Al Gore in the Bush v. Gore case that led to President Bush's win of the executive.
A fervent Barack Obama supporter, Tribe taught the Democratic candidate at Harvard Law School and is a legal advisor to the Obama campaign.
