Laurence H. Tribe

TL;DR: Tribe as discussed by the authors focused on the Constitution's provisions for government structure and on how constitutional structure helps guarantee protection of substantive rights and liberties, and provided a wealth of original, insightful, and influential analysis of constitutional law doctrine and policy.

TL;DR: The abortion debate in the United States today involves all Americans in complex questions of sex and power, historical change, politics, advances in medicine, and competing social values as discussed by the authors, and an eminent constitutional authority shows how the nation has struggled with these questions and then sets forth new approaches that reflect both sides' passionately held convictions.

TL;DR: For example, the recent decision by Los Angeles County officials to install more than 900 plastic trees and shrubs in concrete planters along the median strip of a major boulevard as discussed by the authors, where the construction of a new box culvert left only 12 to 18 inches of dirt on the strip, insufficient to sustain natural trees.

TL;DR: In deciding constitutional cases, the Supreme Court has often invoked a vision of how politics should work, justifying judicial intervention as a response to supposed gaps between that vision and political reality.