Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Harvard’s major new report on how the university exploited slavery in the 17th and 18th centuries — and its plan for reparations and a range of other constructive steps — while over a century late, represents an important and valuable start. https://t.co/07H1LnLFGO — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Even if “an avant-garde flirtation with reaction will [eventually] collide with the brutish, philistine reality of [cruel] conservative rule,” the threat right-wing chic poses to liberal values of freedom and democracy is profound. Think Clockwork Orange. https://t.co/qMIt7y50U6 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep,” Isaiah Berlin once said. “This point is too often ignored. Government — or large centralized authority — is one threat to liberty but not the only one.” Plutocratic control of speech is another. https://t.co/2zDT8oLy4n — PolitiTweet.org

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If Judge Mizelle’s ruling is upheld, the C.D.C. “will be seriously hobbled and a ruinous precedent will be set for the entire federal regulatory apparatus. So, even if you’re fed up with masking up, you should be distressed about Judge Mizelle’s decision.” https://t.co/uviVYMtYx4 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

There’s a decent chance that DOJ’s seeming hesitation to indict Meadows on a misdemeanor charge of contempt of Congress means that it has much bigger plans for him . . . — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Though I represented hiQ against LinkedIn at the start of this long-running saga, I can now be objective— and my view is that this pro-hiQ ruling is both legally bulletproof and a good precedent for competition and broad access to public information https://t.co/D8R7ldb6qo — PolitiTweet.org

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Glad @GlobeOpinion has corrected the piece to say “there’s no ENFORCEABLE rule that requires Supreme Court justices to recuse themselves from cases that present a conflict of interest. Seated on the bench for life, they are effectively beholden to no one but themselves.” — PolitiTweet.org

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These Cruz-Eastman memos should be explosive: they’re likely to diagram the pre-Jan 6 criminal coup that would’ve positioned Pence to toss the presidential election to the House, where Trump had a lock on 26 of the 50 state delegations — PolitiTweet.org

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Each such victory is an opportunity for the GOP to trot out its theory that state courts cannot invoke their state constitutions to strike down congressional maps drawn by state legislatures — a theory inconsistent with Art IV’s guarantee of a republican form of government — PolitiTweet.org

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Former President Donald J. Trump was ordered to turn over materials sought by Letitia James, the New York attorney general, and will be fined $10,000 per day until he does. https://t.co/4z2kghQDhC — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Today’s GOP leaders “listen to their lesser angels: power, privilege and perks. Personal aspiration has strangled integrity; instead, ‘Virtue is chok’d with foul ambition.’” https://t.co/P9CJwk2kMD — PolitiTweet.org

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“Even under the wrongly reasoned OLC opinions on senior presidential aides’ immunity, it is simply untenable, and always has been, for any such aide to claim that political activities are shielded from congressional investigation.” https://t.co/haAMJtl7Jn — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Even if this picture of the NEW “New Right” is only half-right, the unmoored nihilism it reveals is terrifying. 👽 😱 You owe it to yourself to read it — and to prepare for the worst while redoubling your work for democracy. https://t.co/mfzJotyBCu — PolitiTweet.org

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Слава Україні 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 — PolitiTweet.org

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Vive la France 🇫🇷 👏 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The magnitude of the January 6 Committee’s win is exceeded only by the frivolity of Eastman’s “legal” arguments. Finding a judge to accept them would’ve been an insurmountable challenge. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Not the least of the entire sad affair was the utter shamelessness of a woman who occupies a position of trust on Capitol Hill.” https://t.co/6CudAMzPJU — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

A million dead from Covid. So many more mourners. So sadly private. Death claims its dominion. https://t.co/bBbcY7DOTq — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Wouldn’t that be splendid?! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Exactly right. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Even a modest ruling in Kennedy’s favor, saying that his private, solitary prayer was protected, … would represent a sea change in the court’s approach to the role religion may play in public schools.” Knowing this Court, I’d expect an immodest ruling! https://t.co/5o4nsgrUYJ — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

YES: We need a male contraceptive pill. But good luck getting guys to take it. https://t.co/TYATnTDk0N — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The heartbreaking story behind much of the homelessness we see — or try so hard to look away from: https://t.co/7zv1VT1xrK — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Critics of my proposal that POTUS seize for Ukraine’s benefit the Russian Govt’s $100 billion in dollars lawfully frozen under the 1977 IEEP Act equate U. S. dollar reserves with private property vis-a-vis the U.S., ignoring the key SCOTUS decision in Norman v. B&O Ry Co. (1935). — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

If Justice Thomas’s radical concurrence in the Puerto Rico case becomes law, equal protection and substantive due process principles would cease being applicable to the U.S. Government — the very view that led to Robert Bork’s 58-42 Senate defeat in 1987 https://t.co/EB1hPOV1Mk — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

There’s growing global support for using Putin’s Central Bank money stored in foreign reserves in nations like the U.S. to help Ukraine defend from Russia and rebuild what Russia is destroying. Federal control over all U.S. currency plus the IEEPA statute eliminates legal doubt. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

A useful article but one that equates seizing assets of Russian oligarchs, a move fraught with due process problems that make it slow and uncertain, with using frozen funds of the Russian state, a legally less fraught process quickly yielding vastly more  https://t.co/GZDGkVX6vc — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Seizing the Russian assets already frozen by the United States and its allies is a much more certain way to get the money.” And there are no due process obstacles when only government assets are seized.  https://t.co/WygXWcbRdp — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Under Powell v. Texas (1968), the 8th Amendment would prevent making involuntary homelessness a crime. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

It’s inconceivable that such a meeting could’ve taken place without Trump’s knowledge and blessing , thus placing him at the center of a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election — PolitiTweet.org