Sixteen appointees and advisers helping president-elect Barack Obama’s Justice Department transition efforts all recently sat on the board of a little-known organization: The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.
The liberal legal network, which blossomed during eight years of Democratic exile, counts as its veterans Obama’s attorney general nominee Eric Holder, Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s chief of staff Ron Klain, and future White House Staff Secretary Lisa Brown.
The ACS links also reach far into Obama’s past legal career. Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe, a member of the ACS Board of Advisors, taught Obama constitutional law and later advised his campaign on legal issues. Read More
Looks like Barack is well protected?
Well, here’s a fairly scary thing
… it’s modeled around a broad legal philosophy that eschews strict constitutionalism for what Liu calls the “lived circumstances of the law” or including the consideration of outside factors in constitutional law.
So, basically, the Constitution is just one factor in deciding what is and isn’t constitutional.
Yes, we can!