Law Expert: Obama Will Preserve the Constitution

The Concord Monitor reports:

The future of the Supreme Court could hang in the balance this presidential election, constitutional law expert Laurence Tribe told voters yesterday while campaigning for Democratic candidate Barack Obama in Concord.

“The next president won’t be in a position to make this a liberal court, but he can prevent it from becoming reactionary and moving to unreviewable executive power,” Tribe told about a dozen voters at a campaign-sponsored event at Gibson’s Bookstore.

Tribe, a mentor to Obama at Harvard Law School, spoke yesterday at Gibson’s and at a Concord law firm. He also planned to hold events yesterday and today in Windham, Hanover, Manchester and Exeter.

Tribe said Americans’ civil liberties are hanging by a thread. “But it’s better to have a thread than to have the thread cut,” he said. “A Republican president would be in a position to cut that thread.”

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