Laurence Tribe

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Read this splendid summary of the 1/6 Committee’s devastatingly effective first hearing — on the coup that almost toppled our constitutional republic, and the blood-soaked insurrection that climaxed a day that will live in infamy. https://t.co/zIj36kkFOM — PolitiTweet.org

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“The future of our democracy may well depend on the achievement” of the 1/6 Select Committee’s objectives. So far so good.  https://t.co/hEBB4uTXxg — PolitiTweet.org

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Yup. What do you call a President who says his Vice President “deserves” to be hunted down and lynched for refusing to carry out his seditious demand to prevent Congress from doing its duty and certifying his opponent’s election? — PolitiTweet.org

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Jared Kushner testified that he didn’t take seriously the White House’s counsel’s threat to resign — he called it “whining” — while Ivanka Trump testified that she accepted Attorney General Barr’s message to her father that his whining about a “stolen election” was “bullshit.” — PolitiTweet.org

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“I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible,” #LizCheney said at Thursday night’s opening hearing of the Jan. 6 House select committee. “There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.” Mic drop 🎤 — PolitiTweet.org

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“He lied to the American people, ignored all evidence refuting his false claims, pressured officials to throw out election results favoring his challenger, encouraged a violent mob to storm the Capitol, and supported execution of his own vice president.” https://t.co/fnfKwtEduQ — PolitiTweet.org

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“As the committee portrayed it during its prime-time televised hearing, Mr. Trump executed a seven-part conspiracy to overturn a free and fair democratic election.” https://t.co/fnfKwtEduQ — PolitiTweet.org

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“In the entire 246-year history of the United States, there was surely never a more damning indictment presented against an American president than outlined on Thursday night.” https://t.co/fnfKwtEduQ — PolitiTweet.org

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Lesson: Never say firearms laws don’t matter because the bad guys don’t care about what the law says anyway! — PolitiTweet.org

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Question for @JoyceWhiteVance: Are you really suggesting that Trump was “levying war against the United States,” which Article III of the Constitution and 18 U.S.C. § 2381 defines as the crime of “treason”? — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump’s only possible defense is that he was and remains too delusional an egomaniac to believe he could’ve lost fair and square. But I have a hard time imagining him mounting what would amount to a plea of insanity. — PolitiTweet.org

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More than interesting! It conclusively shows that the violence unfolded exactly as planned, backed by the larger mob that they knew Trump would send to back them up. Without that mob, the Proud Boys & Oath Keepers would’ve been unable to achieve their goal of stopping the count. — PolitiTweet.org

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Very revealing statement by Cheney, a stunning revelation in her magnificent presentation of the case — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tribelaw: Tonight’s 1/6 hearing was enormously powerful in setting a sober tone, making the continuing danger palpable, shredding any i… — PolitiTweet.org

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I agree. No way to watch tonight’s hearing without seeing the former president in handcuffs when all is said and done. The only one too enamored with his own BS to imagine it is Donald J. Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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Tonight’s 1/6 hearing was enormously powerful in setting a sober tone, making the continuing danger palpable, shredding any idea that the violence at the Capitol was unplanned, and proving that the whole saga unfolded exactly as Trump intended — except for its ultimate failure. — PolitiTweet.org

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Hard to disagree — PolitiTweet.org

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John Hart Ely was a great scholar, a wonderful teacher, and a good friend. That doesn’t mean he was always right. https://t.co/SxTvjynKDH — PolitiTweet.org

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Good point. I thought David Brooks was really offbase today. Sure, we need to figure out how best to move forward. But too few people really get what happened. These hearings are necessary but not sufficient. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Reason and data only goes so far in today’s politics. Sometimes visceral horror is required.” Listen to the “pediatrician who saw the mangled, unrecognizable bodies of children in the Uvalde, Tex., school shooting.” Some were actually decapitated. https://t.co/NpUBDYbQF7 — PolitiTweet.org

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From me and Albert Alschuler: Some questions addressed directly to Justices Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas. Hint: They won’t be easy to answer unless the leaked draft is radically revised. Including a new bottom line on Roe v. Wade! https://t.co/OHzU2neuns — PolitiTweet.org

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“If I don’t get re-elected because of this, that’s OK.” — @RepElaineLuria  Nobody who’s unable to say that belongs in elective office.  It’s not power as such that corrupts: it’s power for its own sake that’s corrupt —- from start to finish. https://t.co/NvXaFWaEhV — PolitiTweet.org

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Everyone should read this! https://t.co/Qn61EDT93u — PolitiTweet.org

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I look forward to @POTUS’s response to this urgent set of proposals from @SenWarren and nearly two dozen of her Senate colleagues.  He shouldn’t wait for #SCOTUS to overrule #RoeVsWade in a few weeks.  President Biden should act in advance.  https://t.co/9Pv0BnuKp3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Those of us who’ve been harshly critical of the Court’s decisions but love the institution at its best and are friends of some of the Justices should be especially supportive of what the Justices, their clerks, families and Court staff are going through. https://t.co/rL5MtNE7DF — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tribelaw: “No matter how vociferously Mr. Trump claimed otherwise, neither Mr. Kushner nor Ivanka Trump believed then or later that the… — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

RT @tribelaw: Those of us who’ve been harshly critical of the Court’s decisions but love the institution at its best and are friends of som… — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

RT @tribelaw: Everyone should read this! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

RT @tribelaw: I look forward to @POTUS’s response to this urgent set of proposals from @SenWarren and nearly two dozen of her Senate collea… — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This — PolitiTweet.org