Laurence Tribe

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [and women] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Unfit to lead. Exactly. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This is a landmark protection against a pervasive abuse of police authority: the pretextual stop and search. Everybody in Massachusetts is now less vulnerable. https://t.co/rByuiUGTa6 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The “15-count indictment lays out a sprawling 15-year conspiracy to funnel millions in unreported compensation — in the form of rent-free Manhattan apartments, leased Mercedes, private-school tuition payments, ... to senior Trump Organization executives.” https://t.co/z8bYXlHoUd — PolitiTweet.org

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“It isn’t textualism ... to interpret the law ... one wishes [Congress] had written...To return to Alito’s [own] metaphor, this is what a judicial pirate ship looks like. It flies textualist colors while plundering a key achievement of American democracy.” — @ProfNickStephan — PolitiTweet.org

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“The Court’s most astonishing extra-textual move ... was [asserting] that a ‘relevant consideration’ is ‘the degree to which a voting rule departs from what was standard practice’ in 1982,” a wholly made-up criterion, inconsistent with what the law sought. https://t.co/JKUF6eQuqp — PolitiTweet.org

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“The Court also manufactured out of whole cloth a principle that, even if a particular regulation is racially discriminatory, it can be overlooked if a state offers ‘other available means’ for voting” Congress said no such thing. https://t.co/JKUF6eQuqp — PolitiTweet.org

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“Section 2 states that it applies to any ‘denial or abridgment’ of the right to vote. The Court qualified that broad language, effectively inserting the word ‘substantial’ before ‘abridgment,’ with no basis in the text.” Worse, it added the word “unusual.” https://t.co/JKUF6eQuqp — PolitiTweet.org

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Alito, & the 5 five who joined his opinion in Brnovich v. DNC, were unwilling to heed Sec. 2’s clear textual command. They invented several limits that will make it harder for plaintiffs to win future VRA Sec. 2 cases — and that appear nowhere in its text. https://t.co/JKUF6eQuqp — PolitiTweet.org

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“Donald Trump doesn’t get away with lies because his followers flunked Epistemology 101. He gets away with his lies because he tells stories of dispossession that feel true to many of them.” Brooks is right: the problem is emotional, not intellectual. https://t.co/ngwURYVHh5 — PolitiTweet.org

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“Thanks to SCOTUS, a state can now assert an interest in preventing fraud without proving that fraud is actually a serious risk, but minority voters must show the state has imposed more than the ‘usual burdens of voting.’” That’s a made-up standard. https://t.co/2Wne8BK1WC — PolitiTweet.org

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“It’s easy to be outraged by making it a crime to give voters water while they wait in oppressively long lines to cast a ballot, as the new Georgia law does. It’s harder to get worked up about the arcane machinery of election administration.” But we must. https://t.co/UNieeNyoku — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s the 25-page indictment of the Trump Organization and its CFO Allen Weisselberg, who faces up to 10 years in prison if he doesn’t cooperate with the Manhattan DA https://t.co/XI23yFfWQK — PolitiTweet.org

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In his libel suit against Tim O’Brien, “the former president testified under oath that he and Weisselberg routinely worked jointly to prepare summaries they shared with banks that were trying to assess Trump’s financial wherewithal.” https://t.co/dmkyqNyhA2 — PolitiTweet.org

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“When it comes to voting rights, Chief Justice Roberts has pushed in the opposite direction, presiding over the court’s systematic dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, overriding Congress’s clear intentions and gravely injuring U.S. democracy.” https://t.co/MbImqyuU9P — PolitiTweet.org

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“Now we know the disgraced former president still stands, remorselessly and unapologetically, with those who attempted the violent overthrow of Congress and of a democratic election.” https://t.co/Knb89jsq7E — PolitiTweet.org

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Two sets of books! Killer evidence indeed. This looks like larceny as well as fraud. Trump had to have been in on the scheme. — PolitiTweet.org

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Read this! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Kagan's dissent for herself, Sotomayor, and Breyer eviscerates the Alito majority opinion and shows it to be both a betrayal of the nation's ideals and profoundly lawless in the bargain. What Shelby County did to Sec. 5 this abomination did to Sec. 2. https://t.co/SuRqfeKbUY — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The 11th Circuit should uphold this federal district court ruling. It properly enforced the First Amendment.  https://t.co/Z9WVJXkjiO — PolitiTweet.org

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Using video shot by the people who sacked the Capitol, the New York Times’s Visual Investigations team concluded that there was “a clear feedback loop between President Trump and his supporters.” That puts him in the middle of a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the US government — PolitiTweet.org

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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the nation ratifying the 26th Amendment, as three-quarters of states signed on to dropping the voting age from 21 to 18. If you’re among those empowered by the amendment, consider retweeting but by all means VOTE in 2022! — PolitiTweet.org

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This is no better than the Nazi calls to murder Jews like me. Totally disgusting.  https://t.co/bcGy9Ni4Zs — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Please watch the first public session of the President’s Commission on the Supreme Court, in which we’ll hear testimony from expert witnesses from 9 to 5 today. I’ll be there:https://t.co/WoswUswGXg — PolitiTweet.org

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A terrific vision for Massachusetts — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Justice Barrett strikes again. And I don’t mean strikes out. She hits it out of the park, joined in dissent by Kagan, Thomas, and Gorsuch. VERY impressive. https://t.co/Q6wYK4c07Q — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“It’s the anti-Francis majority of American bishops, not liberals or Francis defenders, who would put politics ahead of faith, ideology ahead of theology, and partisanship ahead of fellowship.” They should drop this dumb idea altogether. https://t.co/rtwK418J9b — PolitiTweet.org

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“The Supreme Court declined to hear a legal battle over the rights of transgender students on Monday, handing a victory to Gavin Grimm over the Virginia school board that denied him the right to use the boys’ restroom.” After BOSTOCK, not surprising. https://t.co/Oysa3bGZTv — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

•A scale measuring right-wing authoritarian tendencies found right-leaning Americans scored higher than their counterparts in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. •26% of the U.S. population qualified as highly right-wing authoritarian. Gulp! https://t.co/ULBj2UNRLC — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Boredom is the first step on the path to alienation, which might be followed by enlightenment. Really? Nah. Wishful thinking, probably. https://t.co/fbfB1YnK3o — PolitiTweet.org