Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Both Kavanaugh and Gorsuch voted against Trump’s and Barr’s extreme position here. Only Alito and Thomas dissented! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Profoundly important 7-2 victory in Vance v. Trump: No absolute immunity from state and local grand jury subpoenas for Trump’s financial records to investigate his crimes as a private citizen. Being president doesn’t confer the kind of categorical shield Trump claimed. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Kudos to @JoyAnnReid! She’s a great interviewer and knows her stuff, including law! And she’s smart as a whip. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I dare Twitter to erase this! It’s important for every potential voter to see this video of the president mocking chokehold victims. Only sadistic racists can rationalize ignoring this disgusting display of inhumanity. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Trump might try to cling to power even if he loses, but he’ll lose the help of the Bill Barrs and Mike Pompeos of his Administration unless they’re willing to risk criminal prosecution. Here’s why: https://t.co/YX0fAWic1L — PolitiTweet.org

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3. the health and lives of the entire community. Trump is cruelly saying: “Make your campus a center for transmitting disease and death — or sacrifice the rich content of your curriculum and redesign your educational mission.” That Hobson’s choice trashes academic freedom. — PolitiTweet.org

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2. What ICE is doing similarly violates the 1st Amendment rights of universities and all their students. It threatens to yank the visas of the foreign students whose real or virtual presence in classes is central to how we teach and how our students learn unless we risk (cont’d): — PolitiTweet.org

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1. Imagine if Trump threatened to deport all international students whose universities enforce social distancing in class or use online lectures to supplement face-to-face lectures. Everyone would realize that use of executive power would violate the First Amendment. Cont’d: — PolitiTweet.org

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Many of these 200,000 deaths are directly attributable to Trump’s self-absorbed attitude and approach to the pandemic. How many? TOO MANY! https://t.co/BbNrABLqz7 — PolitiTweet.org

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This thread may become the noose Trump carelessly hung around his own neck: @rgoodlaw uncovers what could be the precursor to #BountyGate 👇🏼 https://t.co/VzSbwV43VH — PolitiTweet.org

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Nothing SCOTUS decides tomorrow — either way — will result in the public release of the tax information Trump has been so desperate to conceal from voters in time for the 2020 election. So the thing to look for is whether SCOTUS upholds or rejects Trump’s “I am the law” boast. — PolitiTweet.org

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Re Trump’s back-to-school recommendation: SHUT UP, DONALD. NO SANE PARENT GIVES A SHIT WHAT YOU THINK. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Yes, he’s a malevolent career criminal. But he’s also in denial, abjectly ignorant, clueless, and dumb as a rock. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

With Pence taking Trump’s Covid-19 test and Putin taking Trump’s SAT test, who’s left to referee the Putin v. Pence “wife v. mother” arm-wrestling match? It’s a Russian tradition as old as Catherine the Great, I’m told . . . — PolitiTweet.org

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With Pence taking Trump’s Covid-19 test and Putin taking Trump’s SAT him, who’s left to referee the Putin v. Pence “wife v. mother” arm-wrestling match? It’s a Russian tradition as old as Catherine the Great, I’m told . . . — PolitiTweet.org

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The birth control RFRA decision today is an apt reminder that SCOTUS is split not 5-4 but 4 leaning hard right (Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh), 1 conservative (Roberts), 2 moderate (Breyer & Kagan), and 2 liberal (Ginsburg & Sotomayor). Oversimplified but basically true. — PolitiTweet.org

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I refuse to go that far, @JoyceWhiteVance. Right still matters — enormously — even if those temporarily in power act as though it didn’t. I know you’re not tossing in the towel. Neither am I. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I don’t see any effective response in the majority opinion or in either concurrence to Justice Ginsburg’s point, quoting the @JoshuaMatz8 brief, that the Trump position violates the Establishment Clause. Nor can I think of any adequate response. The point seems irrefutable. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I don’t see any effective response in the majority opinion or in the Kagan concurrence to Justice Ginsburg’s point, quoting the @JoshuaMatz8 brief, that the Trump position violates the Establishment Clause. Nor can I think of any adequate response. The point seems irrefutable. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

What an ad! — PolitiTweet.org

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Urrrgh — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This important proposed legislation cosponsored by @SenFeinstein and @SenWhitehouse would be fully constitutional. I’m strongly in favor of its passage. https://t.co/WvhY3m5RKo — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Even if the Supreme Court rebuffs Trump’s claims in Vance, don’t hold your breath awaiting more information about his tax returns. Most likely, it will be a while before we know any details, and portions of his returns may remain forever secret.” https://t.co/TZdLiwvKG8 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

So typical: Trump cares more about protecting his backside than about saving the lives of American soldiers. Disgusting. https://t.co/2zxg1SOmiP — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“One-fifth of the way through the 21st century, Donald Trump is seemingly running to be the last President of the Confederacy.” Too bad we can’t just stick him in a time machine and send him back 155 years . . . https://t.co/CqKFAC20Fh — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump IS a 🦠virus 🦠 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Litigation against this cruel and pointless policy seems inevitable. A favorable outcome doesn’t. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This can’t be blamed on SCOTUS: Citizens United expressly upheld full disclosure laws. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“On a day when presidents typically extol the values that bring Americans together, Mr. Trump launched an unhinged attack on the movement for racial and social justice that has surged in the past month.” https://t.co/hDH5WUZ3pf — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Justice Kagan ended her opinion by invoking the Constitution’s preamble: “here, We the People rule.” ...A more accurate formulation would be, “We the People of the Battleground States rule.” And that ... is a problem that the Supreme Court can’t solve.” https://t.co/zZwRECMvfI — PolitiTweet.org