Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Well said. And it’s the way life and structures braid that keeps me eternally fascinated by human constitutions — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

A big f—ing deal, to be precise. A great example of the point that language matters way more than law. This declaration had no legal significance. But its world historical impact was HUGE. https://t.co/ViOt4kLR1c — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Risking a potential fracture with Turkey is a price more than worth paying to signal our commitment to global human rights and to call things by their right names. What the Turks did to the Armenians was genocide. I commend Biden for calling it that. https://t.co/oM61dCZQyK — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“This is the only humane thing in the world to do, so he should do it.”  https://t.co/RmVfI8d18A — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Just in: The full Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has agreed to reconsider this decision finding that detainees at Guantanamo don't get due process. Oral arguments are set for 0930 on 9/30/2021. https://t.co/L9UDkuVoV8 — PolitiTweet.org

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“Congress can require states to impose basic safeguards in the counting of votes in federal elections. This is not part of H.R. 1 but should be, and Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution gives Congress wide berth to override state laws in this area.” https://t.co/QtO1b9qDw5 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

A serial abuser of power? Looks like it. https://t.co/OmA44aT3Br — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“With their deep pessimism, the hyperpopulist wing of the G.O.P. seems to be crashing through the floor of philosophic liberalism into an abyss of authoritarian impulsiveness.” The trend line points straight to hell on earth. We can’t succumb to it. https://t.co/4FnvwIZ49c — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Hurrah for today’s 94-1 vote for the anti-Asian hate crimes bill, proof that the Senate can still work to address national problems. The vote was 94 - 1. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) was the lone no vote. He’s a disgusting throwback to our darkest times. https://t.co/6MIgn42SKu — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Answers tend to die young, but a good question lives forever.” — Daniel S. Milo, “good enough” (2019)(Harvard U. Press)(p. 50). You’ve gotta this marvelous book on the misuses of the Darwinian thesis of natural selection and the implications for social policy. — PolitiTweet.org

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“The current [Supreme Court] can [treat the Second Amendment as less subject to restriction than the First and Fourth Amendments] if it so chooses. It has the votes. We will soon see whether it has the discipline and common sense to stay its hand.” https://t.co/X7MNxjRJr0 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The party-line vote for DC statehood in the House was 216 to 208, with all Republicans rejecting the bill, H.R. 51. The long overdue legislation has strong support from President Biden but looks all but hopeless in the 50-50 Senate. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The 3 dissenters are of course correct that the SCOTUS majority here gutted its 2012 and 2016 precedents. Worse, it gutted the just and decent treatment of juveniles. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Happy Earth Day 🌎 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

#AmyConeyBarrett should recuse herself in this case if she gives a hoot about her reputation or that of the Supreme Court, an asset neither she nor the Court can afford to squander https://t.co/jOcCPTi2Dk — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“A book by a judge about why that judge’s personal history doesn’t matter at all [is] just a Zen parable about one hand clapping.” https://t.co/t9MfUcL2vR — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Barrett has... only been a judge for a little over three years. She’s been a Supreme Court justice for less than six months. If her new book is intended to be rooted in her vast personal experience as a federal jurist, it’s coming a few decades too soon.” https://t.co/t9MfUcL2vR — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Barrett’s $2M book advance isn’t “doing a lot of work to instill public confidence in an independent judiciary just when the independent judiciary needs it most.” https://t.co/t9MfUcL2vR — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Exactly the right response: not a victory lap or even a pause, but a serious plan for substantial inquiry and thoroughgoing reform: https://t.co/8qjvUDlbvt — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Releasing anyone credibly charged with being part of this criminally seditious and violently insurrectionist conspiracy is, pardon the expression, meshugena and, not to put too fine a point on it, totally fucked up. This is what pretrial detention is for https://t.co/k20RuvUIpc — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

So grim. Here’s #TuckerCarlson basically celebrating the homophobic murder of San Francisco Board of Supervisors official #HarveyMilk just for being gay and proud of it back in the day. Poor Harvey is dead, while evil Tucker is still spewing hate and fomenting hateful violence. — PolitiTweet.org

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“‘I can’t breathe.’ Those were George Floyd’s last words,” President Biden said. “We can’t let those words die with him. We have to keep hearing those words. We must not turn away. We can’t turn away.” Amen. — PolitiTweet.org

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Chauvin might never see the light of freedom again. That would be just. But it wouldn’t be nearly enough. The SYSTEM that let him murder George Floyd must be changed. But for a bystander’s iPhone camera, Chauvin wd’ve gotten away with murder! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

George Floyd didn’t die because his heart was too large but because Derek Chauvin’s heart was too small. — State of Minnesota’s closing argument. Says it all, doesn’t it? — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Oddly, I told several people around 45 minutes ago that I suddenly got a strong feeling that a verdict had been reached and would shortly be announced. Eerie. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I’m honored to work with @judgeluttig in opposing the IRS’s bait and switch vis-a-vis the Coca-Cola Company. Here’s a brief profile of Judge Luttig’s continuing defense of constitutional principles. He and I have at times disagreed, but here we’re united: https://t.co/6WIG9bmSO1 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Early indications are that Biden has achieved what Obama never did: finding a way to make progressive policies truly popular.” https://t.co/9hkfEhPfAY — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Lin Wood. OMG. Just listen to that lunatic. And he was on Trump’s legal team. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Exactly — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Calling this a “hunger strike” is a sick euphemism. It’s like calling “Your money or your life” a choice. Vladimir Putin is starving his critic, Alexei Navalny, to death by making him choose between food and freedom. That’s cold-blooded political murder. https://t.co/iWGOQ2hHF7 — PolitiTweet.org