Well Seasoned, Maybe, but Not ‘Aging’
“Justices Take a Turn to the Left” (June 29) referred to Harvard Law professor Laurence H. Tribe as “aging.” I attended high school with Tribe and we are both 62. Tribe may be a veteran of arguing before the Supreme Court and he may have been around for a while, but to use a pejorative term like “aging” is editorializing and is demeaning. If your point was that there are a lot of younger attorneys involved in cases at the Supreme Court, it could have been made without using Tribe as the antithesis of these younger people.
I am not a “senior” activist. Far from it, I am a teacher and a businessman who has a lot of years left to contribute to society. In my classes and my work, my experiences are appreciated. I don’t plan to sit out the rest of my life on the sidelines.
John R. Oppenheim
Long Beach
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