Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Alexis de Tocqueville … recognized the key role lawyers played as restraints on the dangerous potential of a public carried away by populist passion.” Law can be a tool of evil too. Our job is to tilt it toward good. https://t.co/FlvHyBjiNN — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Anyone wanna bet that the GOP hypocrites will challenge this NY appeals court decision by invoking its (made-up) theory that only the “independent state legislatures” can draw congressional district lines? https://t.co/lTJiBQeGC8 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Donald Trump was defeated in 2020, but Trumpism is a cancer that has metastasized across the country,” #DonWinslow writes. “I believe a more dangerous form of it will emerge after the November midterms.” https://t.co/DpoklAmu3d — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The key lesson: None of Trump’s infamous pardons prevent the US Government from collecting financial damages from the asswipes he pardoned. Only criminal prosecution is prevented — and only within each pardon’s specific scope. https://t.co/ATNBnmU6ic — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Taken together, the growing collection of evidence is a blueprint for a coup — one in which the danger was not as much from the mob that stormed the Capitol as from people in power who abetted them and were plotting to keep a defeated president in power. https://t.co/5M46Ho6eMl — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The House has passed legislation letting POTUS use a WW II -era law to supply weapons to Ukraine on loan, sending the measure to his desk just hours after he urged Congress to approve tens of billions of dollars’ worth of additional emergency aid for Kyiv. https://t.co/aRclLmWJlQ — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

OMFG!  Next they’ll claim undocumented immigrants are causing global warming.  Oh, wait: global warming doesn’t exist. . .  https://t.co/kk0vj2f9hh — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Here’s a nice, cold breakfast for Vladimir Putin: Add Finland and Sweden to NATO! https://t.co/2nXe5iknSe — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Nobody sums up better than @RepRaskin the diabolical plot by which Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election despite his loss to Biden. And that lying fascist will not stop trying — until We the People stop him. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Such a stable genius! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Pardon me for asking, but why the F doesn’t the UN just expel Russia? It’s now a terrorist state, not a “nation” worthy of the name. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Watching Edward Mosberg take those solemn but triumphant steps brings tears to my eyes. #YomHashoah — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Biden’s proposal to let U.S. authorities liquidate assets of Russian oligarchs and donate the proceeds to Ukraine seeks broad new legal powers that ironically aren’t needed to liquidate even more U.S. dollars from Russia’s sovereign accounts in the U.S.! https://t.co/idqGyDcyVA — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

If I were ever to deliver a "Last Lecture," something I hope never to see myself as doing, I can't think of anything I'd rather say than what my colleague Jon Hanson movingly said to his students here: https://t.co/kFLNmn5er1 via @Harvard_Law — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This damning review accuses Noah Feldman of “ignoring most of the legal arguments and nearly all the precedents for wartime emancipation, and garbling Lincoln’s fairly consistent references to them.” I look forward to reading Feldman’s response! https://t.co/MSmw8t4gZj — PolitiTweet.org

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This piece says “Congress can pass a law [forcing] a justice who has committed to leaving office after a prescribed period of service to do so.” I doubt such a law could be squared with Art III’s guarantee of life tenure. That makes this idea a nonstarter https://t.co/JKjanvr26E — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The author says my recent NYT proposal to seize Russian government dollars frozen in the U.S. “blows by potential legal obstacles at warp speed.” That’s because I lacked the luxury of space. In a forthcoming piece, I will respond in full to this analysis. https://t.co/ldO0F6MJgy — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The NYT is confused in claiming “experts have clashed over whether Mr. Biden would need new statutory authority to liquidate assets.” Nobody has refuted my claim that existing federal statutes suffice to authorize Biden to liquidate Russian GOVT assets. https://t.co/aUXtXmcMs6 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Unlike the Virginia high school, Harvard acknowledges considering the race and ethnicity of applicants in deciding whom to admit. For Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, Virginia’s facial neutrality put them with the three liberals. https://t.co/Jk7aTa9wat — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This gives me hope that whoever murdered the terrific feminist scholar and great friend of many, Professor Mary Joe Frug, who was savagely hacked to death while jogging in Cambridge, MA, in April 1991, will someday come to justice. https://t.co/tcNmQG4tdj — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

What’s in a name? A lot! Take the radical idea that state legislatures are unbound by their constitutions in picking presidential electors and drawing congressional district lines. Name it the “independent state legislature” doctrine — and voila: it almost sounds reasonable! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Rehnquist’s comments that day in Washington, D.C. in May 1998 have for years been forgotten, … [b]ut stand as one of the last, best defenses of Sullivan in the Court’s record.” New York Times v. Sullivan and the Forgotten Session of the US Supreme Court https://t.co/OnDryB0pec — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

In City of Austin v. Reagan National (4/21/22), SCOTUS made a total mess of 1st Am law. Only the 3 dissenters, pointing to the agreement of scholars as far apart as Michael McConnell and me on the key legal point, came close to offering coherent guidance.  https://t.co/k9YVhDU7cH — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“The exit ramp surely must look more attractive to Putin now than it did several months ago.” We should add Russia’s frozen $100 billion treasure to Ukraine’s side if we want to speed Putin’s exit. I explained how in my NYT guest opinion on Sunday April 17 https://t.co/nSDiIb2JBr — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The former federal judge who foiled Trump’s attempted coup in 2020, noting that to be “forewarned is to be forearmed,” lays out how democracy’s enemies plan to seize power in 2024 — regardless of how most people vote. You owe it to yourself to read this! https://t.co/aQuho8p9ch — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Blinken 👍🏽 Paul 👎🏾 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“The fake electors scheme … and the plotting in the White House and on Capitol Hill about [having] Pence block or delay certification of the results are at the heart not just of the [1/6 committee] inquiry but also of an expanding DOJ criminal inquiry.” https://t.co/nQ5FZl8n9k — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

A quick reminder of why we separate church from state . . . — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“everyday people need to realize the high-stakes scenario we’re living in and how citizens need to reclaim their power to create the policies needed to save democracy” https://t.co/gjAp092cUT — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

If you could use a quick reminder of why church and state don’t make a happy mix, a peek at this Orthodox Clergyman blessing Putin’s military weapons should help — PolitiTweet.org