Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

No need to compare Putin to Hitler. Just saying that it's Putin, not Hitler, who killed Borys Romanchenko, the Ukranian 96-year old man who survived 4 of Hitler's death camps. . . — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Trump Aide Who Bought the Burner Phones Testifies That Mark Meadows Basically Planned Jan 6. But remember: Trump says he never heard the term "burner phone." Yeah, and I never heard the term "liar." https://t.co/4AxwwwuFiZ via @NicoleJames — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Hauntingly beautiful . . . — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Trump is “recapitulating all his most egregious scandals — from ‘Russia, if you’re listening’ to ‘I would like you to do us a favor’ — multiplied by a factor of genocide.” — @SykesCharlie, describing the “sheer revolting awfulness” of Trump’s latest outrageous plea to Putin: — PolitiTweet.org

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“There are no rules in war.” — Ginni Thomas to Mark Meadows, regarding the war Trump and his COS Meadows waged on the peaceful transition of power to the incoming president, a war several of whose battles came before her spouse, Justice Clarence Thomas, in 2020-22. Enough said. — PolitiTweet.org

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This lawsuit against the blatantly unconstitutional #DontSayGay law will succeed. @JoshuaMatz8 and @KaplanHecker have done a great public service in taking on sneaky Governor DeSantis and the reactionary Florida Legislature. Read the dynamite complaint here: — PolitiTweet.org

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NPR is inadvertently feeding the myth that this is just a matter of “legal ethics,” where treating SCOTUS Justices with kid gloves and respecting spousal autonomy makes sense. That’s wrong. It’s a MATTER OF LAW: 28 US §455 made CT’s vote flatly ILLEGAL. https://t.co/bjUaYN9eBI — PolitiTweet.org

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DOJ “appears to have moved to a new phase, seeking information about people more closely tied to Mr. Trump.” This reflects the AG Merrick Garland I’ve known for decades. It looks like my impatience may have been misguided. If so, I’ll readily apologize! https://t.co/esm3sxm3ER — PolitiTweet.org

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“DOJ’s investigation now includes possible involvement of other govt officials in Mr. Trump’s attempts to obstruct the certification of President Biden’s Electoral College victory and the push by some Trump allies to promote slates of fake electors.” Good! https://t.co/esm3sxm3ER — PolitiTweet.org

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An encouraging sign but one that begs the question: Why on earth would it take this long for DOJ to begin following the money leading to the 1st nearly successful attempt in history to overthrow the U.S. Government? My hope: DOJ actually began sooner https://t.co/RiC2kXXEuS — PolitiTweet.org

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“At the time [Pence’s chief counsel] wrote the memo, …Trump was still pushing [an] effort to overturn the results in some states, before he turned his attention to his vice president.” The 1/6 committee has a smokin’ hot story to reveal. Watch this space. https://t.co/jDdTijC6bN — PolitiTweet.org

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“In an unsigned majority opinion that two justices described as ‘unprecedented,’ the Court blocked Wisconsin’s new state legislative map as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause. Its harm? Drawing one new majority-minority district in Milwaukee.” https://t.co/UpZ0HxYa6k — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course Ginny Thomas should be subpoenaed. She is at the center of the failed plot to overturn the presidential election, for heaven’s sake! Let her take the 5th on every question if that’s her choice. Which it almost certainly will be, by the way. https://t.co/n9U4oKNFUT — PolitiTweet.org

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I anticipate an avalanche of bad news for GT’s ignorant defenders in the near future. My hunch is that CT will be seriously tarnished as well. And that proof of a seditious conspiracy involving Meadows, Eastman, Cruz, and others will ultimately ensnare Trump himself. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yup — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Huge props to the Sandy Hook victims’ relatives: This is about much more than $$. Plus $120k is an insult. Add some zeroes, Alex. And promise to stop pushing propaganda. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

.@brhodes has it right when he pegs the former guy as a “pathetic groveling autocrat.” — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

So glad KBJ’s will be a bipartisan confirmation. If this were a just world, her confirmation to SCOTUS would be 100-0, but one shouldn’t be too greedy. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This thread feels to me more like wishful thinking than hard-headed assessment. But I’d like nothing more than to be proven wrong. Here’s hoping @BarbMcQuade is spot on! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The 10-minute WH call with Rep. Jordan suggests the possibility that the 139 House members who objected to counting the certified ballots weren’t just protesting but were part of an organized Trump-centered effort to steal the election. DOJ needs to investigate that theory. — PolitiTweet.org

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It might be that Justice Thomas’ most serious illegal act wasn’t adjudicating cases in which 28 USC §455 required recusal but having knowledge of, and then attempting to cover-up, evidence of seditious conspiracy and violent insurrection, making him an accessory after the fact. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump shows more of his true colors with every passing day. He’s not a traitor as such because “treason” is — and should remain — very narrowly defined. But he’s anything but an ally of the American people or a defender of freedom, equality, fairness, or other democratic values. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Good point, for sure. But what makes you think ours is a “rational universe”? — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“The [7.5-hour] gap’s importance is difficult to exaggerate. The evidence of former President Donald Trump’s criminal intent with regard to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election is [relentlessly] building, day by day.” https://t.co/2Kion7HaXg — PolitiTweet.org

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Join me and @Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC at around 10:15 EDT tonight. We’ll be discussing the federal law that REQUIRES Supreme Court Justices to recuse from cases in which their spouses have an interest — and whether recusal is truly optional as some seem to think. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Maybe too obvious, but it’s STUPID to keep saying “Prosecuting a former president is something we just don’t do.” The REASON we don’t is that former presidents haven’t launched insurrections or attempted criminal coups! That’s WHY there’s no precedent for prosecuting them. Duh. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This “leave the families alone” line is badly misplaced in the context of Ginny Thomas’ 1/6 involvement, which makes Justice Thomas’ failure to recuse from these cases illegal under 28 USC secs 455(b)(4) & 455(b)(5)(iii) & 455(c), all focusing on a justice’s spouse’s conduct. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This is the 1997 precedent from NY’s highest court making plain the Governor’s unfettered power to substitute a special prosecutor to take over a case from the Manhattan DA. Governor Hochul should appoint Mark F. Pomerantz or someone like him. https://t.co/E5h8FYoCOu — PolitiTweet.org

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This has NY law exactly right, but Governor Hochul needs public pressure to overcome her apparent reluctance to step in under Article 63, sec 2 of NY’s executive law to “remove Bragg and appoint state Attorney General Letitia James to take over the case.” https://t.co/v1k1YIVZkw — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Absolutely right. This 7.5-hour erasure is itself a smoking gun — PolitiTweet.org