Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

ICYMI: https://t.co/tpUUQkxR2e — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

.@AlexWitt will check in with me on MSNBC at 1:15 pm ET about what the leaked Alito draft means for the future. Forced motherhood is a scary way to mark this Mother’s Day. Freedom, privacy, and equality are all on SCOTUS’s chopping block. — PolitiTweet.org

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“The court’s opinion is not final, but the draft immediately shifted the horizon: If Roe is struck down, where does the anti-abortion movement go next?” There is no answer that could possibly be reassuring to anyone who cares about freedom. https://t.co/ES6Gyc8GEr — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Excellent idea, @AshaRangappa_ Such a federal law would be a valid exercise of Congress’s Article I power over interstate commerce and its Article IV Sec.1 power to enforce the Interstate Full Faith and Credit Clause. — PolitiTweet.org

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“The only theory that makes sense is that the leak came from somebody who was afraid that this majority might not hold. That Chief Justice Roberts might persuade one of the conservatives to come over to him in a much more moderate opinion.” https://t.co/Cs2ADQKiQX — PolitiTweet.org

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“Alito's draft opinion relies on ancient history (when women had even fewer rights), along with a troubling dose of intellectually dishonest constitutional theory. The decision is poised to take America back hundreds of years in terms of gender equality.” — @kimwehle is right — PolitiTweet.org

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In Alito’s world, “protecting abortion, a constitutional right since 1973, would become the job of women after their liberty to choose is tossed into the trash can of rejected jurisprudence. So much for the progress women have made.” https://t.co/wGUZNOkwfW — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I rarely agree with @Jeff_Jacoby but he’s dead right this time. https://t.co/iizlHSxG4J — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“The extraordinary disclosure of the court’s usually private inner workings in the Mississippi case might affect it and other cases.” Any change between now and the final decision will be closely dissected. A perfect illustration of Heisenberg’s insight. https://t.co/9XXNAUn9fA — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This would be a good time for everyone to reread The Handmaid’s Tale — or to read it for the first time if you’re new to Margaret Atwood’s prescient masterpiece . . . https://t.co/bGFDQ4Ed8f — PolitiTweet.org

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“If something like this is the opinion of the court, that’s … like... somebody’s throwing away the steering wheel on a game of chicken — a signal that the gloves have come off and there are no restraints now.” — @dorfonlaw (Professor Michael C. Dorf): https://t.co/YsnT010sGG — PolitiTweet.org

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“If the state makes a claim to your body—a claim therefore to your self—you can no longer be American, not truly. To allow the state to control the body of a citizen is to deny her full personhood.” https://t.co/NX5PX4LqtJ — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

https://t.co/RmLDXZc7Qe — PolitiTweet.org

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Exactly — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Emboldened anti-abortion campaigners are already pressing ahead with even tougher legislation, looking to punish people for getting abortions, [or for] accessing pills and procedures in other states.” The Alito draft signals a tectonic shift rightward. https://t.co/gY0ZlxsD6h — PolitiTweet.org

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Maureen Dowd’s brilliant juxtaposition of “two simultaneous emails [as] a perfect distillation of America’s bizarre duality — our contradictory strains of sexuality and priggishness” — misses just one thing: America’s strain of cruelty and subordination. https://t.co/UweNIqXLbl — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Maureen Dowd at her best: “Samuel Alito’s antediluvian draft opinion is the Puritans’ greatest victory since they expelled Roger Williams from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.” — PolitiTweet.org

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“True, women are no longer without electoral power. But they were without it for almost the entirety of the history on which Alito grounds his analysis of the Constitution and its provisions. You don’t need a leaked document to learn that.” https://t.co/sxluofcWBu — PolitiTweet.org

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“If Roe falls, the Court’s attack on our rights won’t stop at medical clinics. It will rip through courtrooms throughout the U.S., as people with uteruses try to defend themselves – and their liberties – against the patriarchal jaws of the legal system.” https://t.co/M3qs0TmhOM — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

My 4-step plan: 1. Pass a Senate Rule by a majority vote to get rid of the filibuster. 2. Pass HR 3755, the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021, to protect medical services including abortion the way Roe v Wade did. 3. Pass the Thirteen Justices Act. 4. Appoint 4 new justices. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I’m either-or, myself — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

For Senators like Susan Collins, that proud boast by Alito when he sought a DOJ job was overcome by his meaningless assurance when he sought a SCOTUS seat that he considered Roe to be a “precedent of the Court.” That’s frankly either idiotic or willfully self-delusional. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

That’s 122.5 years old, in dog-years! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Exactly — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“It can’t be that institutions ‘give you only the outcome you want, or can be bullied’ to do the same, [Justice Thomas] said.” “Bullying women by criminalizing their bodies and their life choices is another matter altogether,” Thomas didn’t add.  https://t.co/31QJFGubBK — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Unpopular or not, this @imillhiser opinion is one that I share 100%. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Makes sense to me. Way more sense than positing the existence of a reckless and indeed rogue law clerk willing to risk his or her job and entire legal career on the speculative effect leaking the Alito draft would have. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Note to colleagues in the academic world here in the U.S.: Check this out when you feel put upon by having to do virtual teaching! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Overturning Plessy expanded liberty. Overturning Roe would constrict liberty — and be a repugnant repudiation of the American tradition in which freedom extends to an ever-wider circle of people.” https://t.co/3pF8sOfwyQ — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This sums it up pretty well — PolitiTweet.org