Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Just thought I’d share this email I received today from “President” Donald J. Trump: “Before I go on stage and give an EPIC Presidential Speech, I need to know that you’re still in this fight with me. I can’t SAVE AMERICA from Biden and the Left without you.” Sicko, right? — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I’m not endorsing this novel approach, but it makes some sense and certainly shouldn’t be confused with trying to treat social media platforms as arms of the government for First Amendment purposes as Trump is doing in his misbegotten fundraising lawsuit https://t.co/tLrUAeQz9G — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Trump’s constitutional class action con job is classic Trump. Legally ludicrous but politically and financially clever. It’s sad that crap like this achieves its corrupt aim. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

So why is NOBODY being charged under the insurrection statute, 18 USC sec 2383? It’s not enough to charge the insurrectionists with vandalism and theft, petty crimes all! Nor is there any indication that DOJ is building up to charging the ringleaders https://t.co/fFNgSnCnCc — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

RT @tribelaw: Sure, Trump would scream that prosecuting him under 18 USC §2383 would be politically motivated — but it clearly wouldn’t be,… — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Plus: “Incit[ing] or engag[ing] in an[] insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or giv[ing] aid or comfort thereto,” 18 USC §2383, isn’t (a) part of any president’s job description or (b) remotely protected by the First Amendment. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Sure, Trump would scream that prosecuting him under 18 USC §2383 would be politically motivated — but it clearly wouldn’t be, and fear of the way he’d spin it can’t possibly justify holding back. Not for an AG who is — and wants to be seen as — principled and strictly apolitical — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

It’s becoming increasingly hard for me to understand why nobody — like, say, Donald Trump! — has been charged under 18 USC §2383 for “incit[ing] or engag[ing] in any insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or giv[ing] aid or comfort thereto.” — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I’m all for “convincing the public that a post-Trump Justice Department isn’t the same as an anti-Trump one,” but Garland is in danger of bending over backwards so far that he inadvertently runs a pro-Trump DOJ, giving Trump breaks nobody else would get. https://t.co/BnReh5QQuD — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I’ll be on MSNBC talking to Alex Witt at around 2:20pm ET. We’re discussing Trumpian distortions of the First Amendment freedoms of speech and press. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

By outsourcing to vigilante bounty-hunters everywhere the power to regulate its residents’ Life & Liberty, Texas is not just “inverting the legal system” but denying its people the “Republican Form of Government” guaranteed by Art. IV of the Constitution. https://t.co/21WDYFVxGd — PolitiTweet.org

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Rep. Clyburn: “I'm not asking you to eliminate the filibuster. ... But what I'm saying to you is that nobody ought to have the right to filibuster my constitutional rights.” This is the solution: Enact a carveout for laws protecting constitutional rights. https://t.co/000LnwUIl5 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

What could “almost impossibly powerful” possibly mean? Asking for a friend. https://t.co/REUaB5J8QP — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Please, please don’t say you don’t have the TIME to read this marvelously provocative, eye-opening, mind-bending essay. You’re just gonna have to make time to read it — and then read it again. Trust me on this! https://t.co/K39tnx1rYZ — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

SSA Administrator Andrew Saul’s firing by POTUS Joe Biden was obviously lawful under three recent conservative SCOTUS decisions. Live by the sword, die by the sword. What goes around comes around. End of discussion. https://t.co/V1f5ugnYu9 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“If we accept the premise that our beliefs are rooted in emotional attachments rather than cool assessments of evidence, there is little reason to imagine rational debate will break the spell.” And what’s your personal evidence for the Big Bang theory? https://t.co/WPSaYH8eCQ — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

In one of the US Capitol riot cases DOJ said this week that Trump's delusional claims he'll be reinstated as POTUS could fuel more political violence from his supporters. It’s time for DOJ to connect the dots and investigate Trump’s role in fomenting the Jan 6 violence itself. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

RT @MeloniFulvio: Justice Department says Trump's reinstatement talk could fuel more violence from his supporters https://t.co/rMVznr24pV — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Trump has no legal case. Underneath all his lies and self-pity, though, he may have a point.” Of course he does: Platforms like FB have too much power. Wise regulation is needed, not fake self-“oversight.” But suits like Trump’s just raise $ for Trump. https://t.co/1JJBmM31EP — PolitiTweet.org

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Justice Gorsuch should know better than to toss his judicial robe into the “make libel suits easier to file” ring with Justice Thomas. Weakening NYT v. Sullivan would do great harm and very little good. It’s a terrible idea. https://t.co/MuDIZsQv1Y — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Antisemitism has existed for as long as Jews have existed, shape-shifting to fit the times. It has proved the most ineradicable of hatreds because, like a virus, it mutates.” https://t.co/BCaQ27NDEr — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Trump’s latest fundraising gimmick “taps into the idea that we simply cannot live without tech and have a right to be on social media sites because of the ubiquity of tech.” Legally dumb, politically and financially clever. https://t.co/JT8H5Z1pGQ — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

We are watching the rewriting of history in real time. It’s a standard technique of autocrats clawing their way back to power and planning to hold onto it indefinitely . . . if we let them https://t.co/JTwpxvp8nD — PolitiTweet.org

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Those breathing a sigh of relief overlook the claim to “an anti-democratic judicial supremacy wholly incompatible with the Framers’ constitutional design,” one that makes the so-called “Lochner court” of the first third of the twentieth century seem modest https://t.co/sppz2kW7GE — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“In a scorching dissent, Justice Elena Kagan bluntly criticized the majority’s attack on the Voting Rights Act and the irreparable damage the court was doing to the foundation of American democracy.” Scorching and, sadly, irrefutable. https://t.co/4NcOb0YN9m — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Alito’s Brnovich opinion ignores the statute’s text, its focus on lessened opportunity for minority voters, & the history that showed Congress intended to give new protections to minority voters & offers a new & impossible test for plaintiffs to meet https://t.co/5zb8KA6FLe — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Obviously. I’ve said just that myself. Stupid is as stupid does, and these legally frivolous lawsuits are certain to raise Trump a ton of money and help him politically, which is his objective. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Unhinged” suggests Ken Buck (R.. CO 4th) was ever hinged. The evidence suggests not. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“This was all part of a Big Tech conspiracy,” Trump said. “Many of these eighty-one million people were users of Facebook, Twitter, and TicketyTock.” https://t.co/TgIm2aqiCU — PolitiTweet.org