Laurence Tribe

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“Justice Gorsuch’s commitment to textualism, ... interpreting laws by looking solely to their plain words, achieved a just result in this case, but when applied too rigidly can lead to very unjust results.” Right. The challenge is to define “too rigidly.” https://t.co/wFCXpiaV3V — PolitiTweet.org

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“A triumph not just of textualism but of love and dignity.” https://t.co/2qC2bfKdgF — PolitiTweet.org

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“The [Court’s landmark LGBTQ] decision quite closely adheres to an amicus brief filed by constitutional scholars Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz submitted on behalf of several former solicitors general.” — @JRubinBlogger. For further explanation, read: https://t.co/acyyWVR8Yu — PolitiTweet.org

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10. Of course progressives don’t always welcome textual analyses and might worry that this Gorsuch majority will complicate their lives in other contexts. To be sure, this remains a very conservative Court. But I say: Be glad for just outcomes when they come your way. — PolitiTweet.org

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9. My response to Justice Kavanaugh is: So BE a judge — the way Justice Gorsuch, Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor were in this pair of cases. And confront their reasoning head-on — without leaning on empty slogans and cliches. (Go to #10) — PolitiTweet.org

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8. What became of the conservatives’ refrain that liberals should stop trying to “legislate from the bench”? How does the shoe feel when it’s on the other foot? The Kavanaugh dissent unhelpfully says “We are judges, not Members of Congress.” Right! (Go to #9): — PolitiTweet.org

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7. The Alito dissent is surely right that the Court’s holding will “have far-reaching consequences” in well over 100 different areas. Some (including me) welcome those consequences. For those who don’t, the place to turn isn’t the courts but legislatures. (Go to #8): — PolitiTweet.org

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6. barely conceals what the majority rightly identifies as “a cynicism” that belies claims to neutrality in adjudication. The majority rightly held that “an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law.” (Go to #7): — PolitiTweet.org

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5. that can’t change the fact that this but-for test “is the law,” as the majority rightly says. The dissenters accuse the majority of “legislation.” They are wrong. And their claim that Congress couldn’t *possibly* have “meant to protect a disfavored group” (go to #6): — PolitiTweet.org

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4. What’s undeniable is that the employers treated some individuals worse than others because of “such individual’s sex” as defined by their biological characteristics. The dissents call the statute’s but-for causation test “legalistic, ... wooden or literal.” But (go to #5): — PolitiTweet.org

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3. That Title VII is about discrimination against individuals, not groups, is a sufficient answer to the objection that the employers in this case didn’t treat women as a group any worse or better than they treated men as a group. Go to # 4: — PolitiTweet.org

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2. Justice Gorsuch conducted a master class in interpreting legal texts when he patiently explained why the unexpressed intentions of a law’s authors or the conversational conventions of its users cannot be permitted to trump its unambiguous meaning. Go to #3: — PolitiTweet.org

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1. Today’s 6-3 triumph for the rights of homosexual and transgender people in Bostock v. Clayton County is a victory for justice and for reading laws as they were written rather than as some assumed or intended them to operate. Please read the rest of this thread. — PolitiTweet.org

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For a cool break from matters of law, government, and politics, permit me to recommend this intriguing article by my colleague @CassSunstein, the breadth of whose scholarly interests never ceases to impress me: https://t.co/K3Y66045Pn — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve never doubted that racial identity is a significant variable in American governance. It should count heavily in favor of previously excluded groups as part of a person’s full record of background, skills, and values. I’m FOR Warren, not ANTI-excellent others. — PolitiTweet.org

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when asked by the Post why Biden’s choice of a white woman wouldn’t automatically offend African Americans, I replied that I thought they “above all would be the first to say they are more interested in results than in cosmetics.” I apologize for my choice of words. See next item — PolitiTweet.org

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In urging @SenWarren as the strongest VP choice, I didn’t mean to express any doubt at all that several women of color currently on what’s said to be the Biden short list would be excellent choices as well. And (see next item in this thread) https://t.co/NXGTFqndmU — PolitiTweet.org

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“‘No justice, no peace’ is not just a slogan. It is a truthful statement. For the first time in a long time, a large majority of Americans, moved by realities they can no longer deny, seem ready to sign up.“ https://t.co/asYrG76HiL — PolitiTweet.org

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“On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.” — Adlai Stevenson, presidential campaign speech — PolitiTweet.org

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“On one side of the screen, a show of violent restraint: George Floyd pinned down, immobilized while his life is squeezed out of him... On the other side, the embodiment of absolute unrestraint, [Trump’s] unchecked exhalation of hallucinatory gibberish.” https://t.co/CgJdEGVmc1 — PolitiTweet.org

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“What has come to the surface can be repressed again—but that repression will have to be enforced by methods [of state violence] that will also dismantle democracy...Or there will be a transformative wave of change.” https://t.co/CgJdEGVmc1 https://t.co/CgJdEGVmc1 — PolitiTweet.org

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“In this demented solipsism, the entire American past is shrink-fitted so that it hugs Trump’s own ample figure, cleaving both to his greatness and to his victimhood as an object of unparalleled persecution.” https://t.co/CgJdEGVmc1 — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe the poor guy was just having a flashback to going down that golden escalator with Melania in tow — PolitiTweet.org

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“[H]e is still plowing ahead with a rally in Tulsa, the wrong city for a “Make America Great Again” event in this incendiary moment for our country.” https://t.co/ARDbXa2MpV — PolitiTweet.org

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Next he’ll say waterboarding sounds innocent and perfect to him! Oh, he already has? Never mind then. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tribelaw: Trump’s campaign needs to warn voters that, by casting their ballots for his reelection, they’re waiving the right to sue or… — PolitiTweet.org

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Where’s Donald Trump? Too scared to face the people. Too selfish to be trusted. Too scared to meet the moment. Too weak to lead. — PolitiTweet.org

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Donald Trump: Too scares to face the people. To small to meet the moment. Too weak to lead. — PolitiTweet.org

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Donald Trump: Too scared to meet the people. Too small to meet the moment. Too weak to lead. — PolitiTweet.org