We know Laurence Tribe is amazing. Did you know his background?

[hlthe2b]

No wonder he became the constitutional expert and advocate that he is.

Link to tweet

I was born in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, the only city in the world that would accept Russian Jews like my parents, just three months before Pearl Harbor. My father, who’d become a US citizen, was interned by Japan. I still have the American flag he hid

[2naSalit]

1. Something my dad used to tell me...

"Experience is probably the best educator there is."

[soryang]

2. Don't think this part of the background history in the Times is accurate:

"Shanghai had no visa requirements and, surprisingly, had a support system ready for them, largely financed by wealthy Iraqi Jews with British citizenship who had arrived centuries earlier. "

Shanghai wasn't open to foreign residents until the British forced it open with the treaties signed after the First Opium War.

On 29 August , 1842, the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China signed the peace treaty – the Treaty of Nanking , which ended the First Opium War (1839–42). It was the first of what the Chinese later called ‘the unequal treaties on the ground that Britain had no obligations in return’.

2. As a result of the above mentioned treaty, 5 treaty ports opened for foreign trade : Canton, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo and Shanghai. foreign merchants were allowed to trade with anyone they wished. Britain also gained the right to send consuls to the treaty ports, which were given the right to communicate directly with local Chinese officials. Therefore on 8 November, 1843 Captain George Balfour of the East India Company's Madras Artillery arrived as Britain's first consul in Shanghai.

http://www.culture-shock-tours.com/blog/the-history-of-shanghai-s-1st-foreign-concession

[geardaddy]

4. Yeah, the term "centuries earlier" seems blatantly wrong.

Maybe they meant decades earlier.

[alp227]

5. Tribe used to be amazing, but he's gone off the rails

From his Wikipedia page:

Tribe has stirred controversy due to his promotion of unreliable claims about President Trump's fitness for office.[8][9] Dartmouth political scientist Brendan Nyhan harshly criticized Tribe, saying that he "has become an important vector of misinformation and conspiracy theories on Twitter."[8] According to McKay Coppins of The Atlantic, Tribe has been "an especially active booster" of the Palmer Report, "a liberal blog known for peddling conspiracy theories".[10]

The sources:

[8] 2 Professors Walk Into a Dumpster Fire ... (Chronicle of Higher Education)

[9] Why Is A Top Harvard Law Professor Sharing Anti-Trump Conspiracy Theories? (Buzzfeed News)

[10] How the Left Lost Its Mind (The Atlantic)

[hlthe2b]

6. Bullshit. Absolute Bullshit.