Laurence Tribe, Obama's mentor, has become the new favorite of Ted Cruz birthers. When Tribe isn't attacking Ted Cruz, he also believes that Monkeys are people
The advocates of granting legal standing to chimps have gained support from constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law School professor. Mr. Tribe argues that the leap isn't as great as it might appear: Courts recognize corporations as juristic, or legal, "persons"; that is, they enjoy and are subject to legal rights and duties.
"The whole status of animals as things is what needs to be rethought," says Mr. Tribe. "Nonhuman animals certainly can be given standing."
Mr. Tribe says there's no need for constitutional protections on that score. The 13th Amendment already forbids slavery. Mr. Tribe notes that nowhere does it state that only humans are covered; the status itself is forbidden, he argues.
So Tribe's argument is that monkeys are just like black people. That's so racist that only a leftist could have come up with it. When your Constitutional expert thinks that the 13th amendment covers monkeys, maybe it's time to get a new Constitutional expert.