Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Little is left of Sec. 2 of the Voting Rights Act now that the Supreme Court has gutted it; if this district court ruling is upheld, it’s curtains. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Watch the Three Trumpketeers try to wiggle out of this order! Civil contempt would land them in jail, with cooperation being their only key to get out of those ugly orange prison suits — not the Trump idea of high fashion . . . — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

"Not only will Biden make history as the first President to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, he might well be the last to publicly present an appointment as an intentional effort to improve the representation of an underrepresented group." https://t.co/m8jUB1XpC7 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Flush, already! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

It's not nice to say this, but it's looking like Virginia is for Haters rather than Lovers these days. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This is inspiring! Pay it forward!! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“If we are preconditioned to ‘give up’ because we believe losing means the ‘end of democracy,’ it will be damned hard to recruit volunteers to mount new campaigns for control of Congress in 2026 and 2028.” — Robert Hubbell — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This is spot on: On top of everything else, the former judge’s letter to POTUS criticizing Judge Jackson’s ruling against him is flat wrong on the facts and the law: Jackson was PROTECTING unrepresented Black workers from a grossly unfair class settlement! https://t.co/fV0TJFoVyG — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“These and thousands of other frantic, ephemeral text messages that might have otherwise been lost to history are now key to piecing together the most vivid and comprehensive picture to date of the events surrounding the chaos at the Capitol.” Pure gold: https://t.co/mnKlWEUGeE — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“In a truly comical display of Trumpian dishonesty, the Trump Organization pretended that this potentially calamitous development is something positive.” https://t.co/hnp2ZaQR84 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Were the court more judicious in its activism, the perception that the court needs restraining would be weaker.” Here’s a creative but feasible reform I’d favor strongly: https://t.co/UCRgJPUwjS — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“All election systems have both advantages and disadvantages. Despite all the attention national voting-rights debates receive, most political reform takes place at the state level — especially in states, like Alaska, where voters can bypass legislatures” https://t.co/uDRRaSlW5m — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Even if it's determined Cawthorn didn't ‘engage’ in an insurrection, if one focuses on the words ‘giving aid and comfort to an insurrection’ -- words in the 14th Amendment -- the evidence seems more than sufficient." https://t.co/p6VnwUnERE — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“That’s one way to keep incriminating materials from the National Archives. In the Trump White House, even the water closets may have been crime scenes.” https://t.co/eyF1aaA3gM — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“In what might be the world’s fluffiest and most adorable infiltration of a secure military installation, a bunny was recently spotted hopping around in the 5.1 acre outdoor courtyard at the center of the headquarters of the U.S. Dept. of Defense,” ARLnow has learned. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I doubt “there’s anything in American society right now that plays the same role that the conflict over slavery did.” Our problem isn’t impending secession but threatened takeover by a fascist cult that wraps itself in the Constitution while trashing it. https://t.co/s5pegOgrNU — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This is akin to cutting off an addict’s heroin supply without providing methadone as a transition. It’s not a pretty sight. https://t.co/f01WS8354h — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This was the right call https://t.co/OHzq9eNHT2 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This is genuinely insane. Given the GOP's staggering silence about what Trump did with tons of classified documents, the obsession with Hillary is mind-blowing. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Call this rhetorical excess if you like, but among the lessons to be drawn from the history of fascists and their enablers is that their threats must be taken with utmost seriousness. As the great Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1927, "Men feared witches and burnt women." — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This looks like an unfolding tragedy of staggering proportion. If Putin isn't doing a head fake, he'd better be ready to pay a huge economic price for this disastrous decision. Sadly, it's the people of Russia as well as those of Ukraine who will bear the heaviest burden. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Every member of Congress needs to read Judge Michael Luttig's conservative case for avoiding a repeat of Jan. 6. It is a tour de force of reasoned constitutional analysis, relevant to liberals as well as conservatives, threatening only to autocrats. https://t.co/MZoUjAN1e3 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Trump now suggests that in a country as “strong” as he’d make ours, those linking his 2016 campaign to Russia would be put to death. That’s Donald Trump’s America. Not kidding. https://t.co/OidU0Oo115 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

.@RepRaskin: "I read today about a woman who got sentenced to 6 years in jail in TN [for voting while on probation]... These fake electors were trying to deprive the ENTIRE public of its right to participate in the presidential election by essentially stealing the election." — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“You’d have to flush a lot, too, if the only source of fiber in your diet was the President’s Daily Briefing. All this brings new meaning to the phrase ‘document dump.’” https://t.co/PQlhJFiLRI — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

With rare bipartisan support, the Senate just passed landmark legislation that forbids companies from forcing sexual harassment and assault claims into arbitration. A RARE TRIUMPH FOR JUSTICE! It’s now time to fight compelled arbitration elsewhere: https://t.co/EhEHwRUqdf — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“For most of its history, the Supreme Court — the 16 years of the Warren Court notwithstanding — has been a friend to hierarchy and reaction.” My piece in NYRB (online 2/10, print 3/10) shows how Justice Breyer does a disservice by pretending otherwise. https://t.co/fLkuOmf1tR — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Hermes asks Zeus whether he’s to distribute knowledge of justice only to the few, like musical talent, or to all, trusting that all can understand justice. “To all,” Zeus replies. “Let all have their share: for good governments cannot be formed if only a few decide for the rest.” — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Tragically, the Western leaders and diplomats who are right now trying to stave off a Russian invasion of Ukraine still think they live in a world where rules matter, where diplomatic protocol is useful, where polite speech is valued.” https://t.co/A9KguV6wtr — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Tom Stoppard said to me not long ago that his favorite parenthesis in world literature was this, from “Lolita”: ‘My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three.’” https://t.co/kNfal07oR0 — PolitiTweet.org