Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Permission to hope 🙏 https://t.co/iAdLoomSqa — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I agree Alito’s acceleration of the deadline for PA’s response to @MikeKellyPA’s frivolous application is nothing to worry about. @steve_vladeck nicely lays out the reasons why. One more: 538 — 20 = 518; so the needed majority of “electors appointed” wd be just 260, not 270. — PolitiTweet.org

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“That the president has chosen to ignore the worst health crisis we’ve faced in 100 years almost doesn’t matter anymore.” — @chucktodd. But it does matter! To 275,000 people who’ve needlessly lost their lives — and at least a million people who loved and will forever miss them. — PolitiTweet.org

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WTF?!?! This would ordinarily be seen as a high crime, both criminally prosecutable and clearly impeachable, but hey, what’s a little attempted sabotage and vote theft among friends? https://t.co/J3HgfJiS8P — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

So they’re finally conceding that Biden/Harris defeated Trump/Pence? Interesting. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Trump sent a message to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp saying that he had allowed the state to be “scammed.” Trump then told Kemp to “call off election. It won’t be needed. We will all win!” How this is supposed to work is completely unclear” https://t.co/P8HhgpmS9M — PolitiTweet.org

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We’re 45 days from the inauguration of the 46th president. But I find it hard to view Donald Trump as much more than a creepy placeholder who played president on TV, so I secretly view my longtime friend and hero Joe Biden as #45. So let’s all celebrate “45 days till #45” today. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Moody and ...sometimes depressed, the president barely shows up to work, ignoring the health and economic crises afflicting the nation and largely clearing his public schedule of meetings unrelated to his desperate bid to rewrite the election results.” https://t.co/tm8seNhCz4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is literally losing his mind if he imagines such a brazen theft of the votes of millions of Georgia’s citizens could possibly succeed https://t.co/J3HgfJiS8P — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

We’re 46 days from the inauguration of the 46th president. But I found it difficult to view Donald as much more than a creepy placeholder who played president on TV, so I secretly view my longtime friend and hero Joe Biden as #45. Thus I celebrated “45 days till #45” yesterday. — PolitiTweet.org

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Justice Alito’s clever briefing schedule ensures this frivolous appeal by @MikeKellyPA will be DOA becuz PA will have met the Dec 8 safe harbor date BEFORE Kelly’s final brief replying to PA’s response, due Dec 9, is filed Dec 10, ensuring it’s moot. 😂 https://t.co/2AE7Ral9mT — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Gives new meaning to being “grandfathered” . . . https://t.co/3TwzOKqaIy — PolitiTweet.org

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DON’T PANIC (yet, anyhow): As this article rightly concludes, “Even if a [crazy] Senator joins such a [blatantly meritless] challenge, the effort is unlikely to do more than delay Biden’s victory.” And by at most a day or so, I’d add. https://t.co/wTxU1q3urm — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The folly of Prohibition, which never belonged in the Constitution in the first place, formally ended 87 years ago today. I just might drink to that. Huzzah! — PolitiTweet.org

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Some ideas worth pursuing here. Having (hopefully) dodged a torpedo, we need to enact vital reforms to reduce the risk of an insurmountable crisis next time https://t.co/3oCM8y4b76 — PolitiTweet.org

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YES!!! 👏👏👍🏽👏👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽💥 https://t.co/bNckSQAkv1 — PolitiTweet.org

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This brief brilliantly navigates the narrow channel left for public health measures by SCOTUS in Roman Catholic Diocese v. Cuomo. Let’s hope at least one of the three Trump appointees has an open mind. That’s all it would take to hold back an unhealthy theocracy and save lives. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

That’d do it, for sure! https://t.co/EM3rHHwYEX — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This the sort of probing question you get when you engage in an orgiastic #pardonpalooza https://t.co/InYDNwzXO7 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

When you scrape the bottom of the idiotic Lemming-like cultish conspiracy barrel, this is what you’re likely to dig up: https://t.co/Ulu6iEHSED — PolitiTweet.org

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QED — PolitiTweet.org

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6. But everyone agrees nobody is above the law in America. 7. Hence the pardon power must be limited not just by its own terms but by background premises that check all constitutionally granted powers. 8. Those premises must preclude self-pardons. — PolitiTweet.org

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4. And all federal crimes such a crooked POTUS commits while in power can similarly be given a permanent immunity bath. 5. So if the pardon power is bounded only by its own terms (eg, fed crimes only), it’s a bootstrapping device to put every POTUS above the law. — PolitiTweet.org

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3. If the pardon power of Art II, sec 2 is read to be absolute & unbounded, any federal crimes that help a candidate without scruples to become POTUS will forever be shielded from prosecution. — PolitiTweet.org

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2. As POTUS, he grants himself a “full and complete pardon for any federal crimes I may have committed in the past as to which the statute of limitations has not run.” — PolitiTweet.org

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1. Candidate DT violates federal criminal campaign finance laws by conspiring (as Individual 1) with his fixer, MC to get hush money through corporation A to a porn star, SD, to buy her silence & help him become POTUS months later. — PolitiTweet.org

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Presidential pardons can reach back to crimes committed many years earlier. So giving presidents the absolute power to pardon themselves would make winning the presidency a crime laundering bonanza — in addition to licensing still more crimes during each president’s term. No way! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The (misguided) OLC policy against ever indicting a sitting president, going back to 1973, would be superfluous if the president could get any such indictment dismissed by tweeting “I hereby grant myself a full pardon for ___ [fill in the blank by copying from the indictment].” — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

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Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

https://t.co/VgNdr31pF5 — PolitiTweet.org