Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Counterfactuals always involve guessing. But one counterfactual proposition that seems increasingly obvious is that if Donald Trump had secured a second term in office, Ukraine would be losing the war right now.” https://t.co/GJ5VfyQrZP — PolitiTweet.org

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This is astonishing even for Trump. I can’t believe that very many of his followers will be as unmoved by the sheer evil of Putin’s atrocities as Trump is. He’s bound to wear out his welcome with a growing number for whom this is just too much to take. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Putin’s ruthless exercise of power . . . has produced self-inflicted wounds of a kind endured by strongmen throughout history.. . Leaders who operate by intimidation deprive themselves of honest advice and information from subordinates." https://t.co/CDZM4YQnxW — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

You call it the Moskva. And it’s now where it belongs. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Putin’s war on Ukraine is a war on innocent children. It is a war against everyone who has a soul. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“For those . . . born after World War II, this is the most consequential war of our lifetime. Upon its outcome rests the future of European stability and prosperity” and thus our own future. We must heed Zelensky s advice about how best to help https://t.co/iZeDOmuA7f — PolitiTweet.org

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NOT being sanctioned by Putin would be like a scarlet Z or even a Swastika — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I’m with Joyce here. Let’s stop obsessing over whether to call the Committee’s evidence-backed conclusion that Trump committed grave crimes a “referral.” That’s a dangerous distraction. Trump will keep lying whatever the Committee says or doesn’t say. The next move is DOJ’s. — PolitiTweet.org

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I like the term “de-Putinization.” It captures that faintly pleasant sense of fumigating a den of rapacious rodents. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@mayawiley holding up her beautiful pet cat 🐈‍⬛ on MSNBC after the cat’s tail crossed the screen and explaining to @AriMelber, who inquired about the furry feline, “He thinks Donald Trump is guilty” . . . Priceless! — PolitiTweet.org

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That’s a fair assessment. Harsh but entirely fair. Kush is costly. To him and the Trumps, life comes cheap. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This isn’t an easy question. Nobody could have dissected — and answered — it more clearly or convincingly than the brilliant and always fair-minded criminal law expert, Professor Albert Alschuler. I highly recommend this lucid and balanced analysis: https://t.co/Fo2vn7gnSh — PolitiTweet.org

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“That distant chapter of American politics — when the American president secretly withheld military assistance for Ukraine before asking President Zelenskyy to announce an investigation of his political opponents — has a direct tie-in to today’s war.” https://t.co/fonhK6iPjq — PolitiTweet.org

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This updated map will help you track the progress of the genocidal war being waged by Putin against the Ukrainian people and their sovereign territory in defiance of the laws of war and the rights of all humanity https://t.co/T40JkIVfEr — PolitiTweet.org

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.@AdamKinzinger is right. Vets should work hard to unseat MTG. For her to disparage military service as she does is an utter disgrace. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@GalvinAlmanza and @davidhogg111 have identified a huge problem here. Lucky they’re on top of this! — PolitiTweet.org

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President Biden is right to name Putin’s war crimes and crimes against humanity exactly what they are: genocide. — PolitiTweet.org

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“The Ukrainian philosopher and editor Volodymyr Yermolenko has written that ‘freedom is the key trait of Ukraine’s identity as a political nation,’ and Ukraine’s resistance testifies to how deep that trait runs.” https://t.co/ngukZe3B1y — PolitiTweet.org

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“I’m not sure I disagree. But it is, nonetheless, a crazy story.” The trouble is: It’s an old story, often breathlessly told, with virtually no meaning for how we should regard judicial review and especially judicial supremacy. https://t.co/jeQNsU6qfZ — PolitiTweet.org

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“We are entering a period of geopolitical and geoeconomic uncertainty the likes of which we have not known since 1989 — and possibly 1939.” Hard to disagree with that platitude! But what does it really tell us? Exactly nothing. https://t.co/z5bDyyx3uF — PolitiTweet.org

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Making this consensus public and displaying the supporting evidence means far more than “referring” Trump for prosecution by DOJ, a step with no legal effect outside the context of contempt of Congress — and one that could spook a DOJ that’s about to indict the former president. — PolitiTweet.org

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If this is true, NATO must respond militarily. Putin cannot be permitted to get away with this atrocity. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

That judgment is clearly beyond the power properly entrusted to any Attorney General, lonely or otherwise. The Rule of Law admits of only one answer. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

We are all witnesses. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“The only question relevant to Strzok's lawsuit,”DOJ said, "is whether former President Trump (whatever he intended) did influence Mr. Bowdich. That question is properly addressed only to Mr. Bowdich, or others directly involved in the removal process." https://t.co/DOQjrrEGwQ — PolitiTweet.org

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“Lake Mary Jane’s case is a first. Never before has an inanimate slice of nature tried to defend its rights in an American courtroom. Depending on your perspective, the lake’s case is either borderline delusional or way overdue.” https://t.co/7e8T7ebJmo — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Yup — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

"It's … clear what President Trump was doing. What a number of people around him were doing. That they knew it was unlawful. They did it anyway," Cheney, the vice chair and one of two Republicans on the committee, said on CNN's "State of the Union" https://t.co/vx9EFXbaVE — PolitiTweet.org

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Just as I predicted: The federal district court’s ruling that an 1872 Act of Congress had erased the Insurrection Disqualification Clause from the 14th Amendment — as though a mere statute could amend the Constitution! — is on a fast track to reversal. https://t.co/oJB0Pp5i2v — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“The debate centers on whether making a [criminal] referral [of Trump] — a largely symbolic act — would backfire by politically tainting the Justice Department’s expanding investigation into the Jan. 6 assault and what led up to it.” I’d trust Garland. https://t.co/1KEkihO4I6 — PolitiTweet.org