Laurence Tribe

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The Trump brief is filled with blatant misrepresentations. — PolitiTweet.org

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@judgeluttig “on Monday faulted Trump’s legal team for not addressing the particular constitutional question raised by a president being impeached before he left office — but being tried after he departed.” https://t.co/Ut5gbAWgXx — PolitiTweet.org

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Two more leading conservative former high officials debunk the Trump defense. https://t.co/FGJ5Zdpipx — PolitiTweet.org

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But as Turley wrote in 1999, ex-Sec of War Belknap’s silence in response to the impeachment charges lodged by the House left “little question of his guilt” in the Senate trial. So too with Judge West Humpherys, convicted unanimously in 1862. https://t.co/i2yfxtTdNa — PolitiTweet.org

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But Turley himself wrote in 1999 that the failure of ex-Sec of War Belknap to answer the ch https://t.co/i2yfxtTdNa — PolitiTweet.org

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2. As a consequence, they did not address the arguments that have been made in support of the constitutionality of the Senate trial.” — PolitiTweet.org

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1. @judgeluttig is quoted in the WP as saying that “Counsel for the former president did not address the actual constitutional issue presented by the Senate's trial of the former president’s House impeachment, which ...occurred while [he] was still ... in office.” — PolitiTweet.org

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How does that taste, Bill Belichick? And what about you, Robert Kraft? — PolitiTweet.org

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"Defeating Trump was not enough. Meaningful progress on health care, racial justice and the economy requires aggressive action on voting rights, partisan gerrymandering and campaign finance." https://t.co/RnO0PsNBrs — PolitiTweet.org

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The House isn’t asking that Trump be convicted and disqualified for refusing a demand that he testify, much less that he risk giving evidence for a criminal trial. They’re just inviting him to testify & asking the Senate to draw the natural inference from his saying “No way.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Justice Stevens would’ve gone further: In Lefkowitz v Cunningham (1977), he reasoned that those wishing to serve in… https://t.co/YZEzVjqcW2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Turley’s wrong: law enforcement officer can be fired for refusing to “answer questions specifically relating to the performance of his official duties” as long as not forced to waive 5th Am criminal use immunity. Gardner v. Broderick (1968)(9-0)(dictum)! https://t.co/i2yfxtTdNa — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ll be briefing foreign correspondents on the impeachment trial Tuesday February 9 at 11 am: https://t.co/9eUlUOrDDw — PolitiTweet.org

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“The nine House impeachment managers leading Trump’s prosecution made clear in an 80-page brief filed last week that they will argue that his role in inspiring the crowd to action began long before the 70-minute speech he gave that day.” https://t.co/XWYe1h8SQ6 — PolitiTweet.org

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”Failure to contest an assertion ... is considered evidence of acquiescence ... if it would have been natural under the circumstances to object to the assertion in question.’ ” Baxter v. Palmigiano, 425 U.S. 308, (1976). So Turley is wrong. As usual. https://t.co/i2yfxtTdNa — PolitiTweet.org

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This cogently reasoned piece from as distinguished a figure in the conservative legal establishment as Chuck Cooper should lead the 44 Senators who followed Rand Paul to reconsider their dangerously illogical position as the trial begins this week https://t.co/9aNj0OKixH — PolitiTweet.org

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“Senators saw how close the country came to catastrophe because of Trump. And they should know what their job is now.”  https://t.co/zSMNO7XDut — PolitiTweet.org

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Earlier today 👇🏼 — PolitiTweet.org

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For sure — PolitiTweet.org

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Glad @AdamSchiff has spoken his mind about the miserable, worthless @kevinomccarthy. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is trying to have it both ways. He says he didn’t really lose and so deserves to be treated as though he remains president. And he says because he’s no longer president the Senate can’t convict and disqualify him. Which is it, man? Just asking for a friend. 😕 — PolitiTweet.org

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“Justice Jackson.” Has a nice ring . . . https://t.co/ODv7G1AISD — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This is the high school I attended. Lincoln High. It feels nuts to me that the SF school board decided it had to be renamed. https://t.co/uRt23xOG6k — PolitiTweet.org

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Glad I could hear this in Russian, my first language. It's all the more chilling in the original -- and captures Trumpism to a "T." All the more reason he can never again be permitted to hold the reins of presidential power. If he is, the American experiment will be over. — PolitiTweet.org

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The impressively high initial job approval of @JoeBiden is a great testament to him but also to @WHCOS and, above all, to the American people themselves, who need some rehabilitation after so many of them fell under Trump’s evil spell. — PolitiTweet.org

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Long, long overdue. This dumb blowhard with a sadistic streak and no moral compass or respect for truth never deserved a media platform in the first place. https://t.co/lvxynEZkkM — PolitiTweet.org

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“The history of the United States is rich with examples of once-dominant groups adjusting to the rise of formerly marginalized populations—sometimes gracefully, more often bitterly, and occasionally violently.”It’s up to us to avoid the fate predicted here https://t.co/Pzo7v9tdvY — PolitiTweet.org

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@AviSaysAliens “protests a ‘culture of bullying’ in the academy that punishes those who question orthodoxy -- just as Galileo was punished when he proposed the Earth was not the center of the universe.” https://t.co/0Fym0IpdAh — PolitiTweet.org

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This side-by-side sequence speaks for itself. It’s a devastating demonstration of Trump’s role in fomenting and causing the insurrection of January 6: — PolitiTweet.org

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In her first opinion as a Supreme Court Justice, Barrett shows herself to be more judicious in handling hot button issues than Gorsuch, Thomas, and Alito. Kavanaugh joins Barrett here. Both seem more like Roberts — so far — than some feared. https://t.co/MMfMWO0cwb — PolitiTweet.org