Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Misquoting the Constitution, as @juliettekayyem rightly emphasizes, is no small matter — especially when presidential deployment of the military on US soil is at issue — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Trump is willing to make an utter mockery of the rule of law...[His] commitment to the rule of law is as empty as is the commitment to religious principles on display in his cheap stunt hoisting the Bible.” https://t.co/5OizacuOoB — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“[T]he White House has been transformed into a veritable fortress — the physical manifestation of President Trump’s vision of law-and-order “domination” over the millions of Americans who have taken to the streets to protest racial injustice.” https://t.co/ru5qavKlUC — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

A good application of catastrophe theory: https://t.co/b4LYWEjDMi — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“A power grab ... always ... begins with a claim to power, and if the claim is accepted—if the performance is believed—it takes hold. Much as he played a real-estate tycoon in the most crude and reductive way, Trump is now performing his idea of power.” https://t.co/c5ZnTZzVvR — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

RT @tribelaw: 8 minutes 46 seconds. Try lying still for that long and imagine being painfully pinned under a grown man’s knee all the while… — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

#NoJusticeNoPeace — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

There’s no statute of limitations for murder. I’d favor both a federal law criminalizing chokeholds and one requiring that murder investigations be opened on all prior cases of murder by choking. Let those charged invoke all available defenses, including the Ex Post Facto Clause. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

About time! But where’s @lisamurkowski been when it counted? I’m old enough to remember that @MittRomney was the only Republican Senator to vote for either Article of Impeachment against our criminal president. https://t.co/LxZ3VPvYtl — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I’m proud to be joined by @jgeltzer, @neal_katyal, and @jentaub in explaining the dangerous way Trump’s lawyers are trying to do in the courts what Trump is trying to do in the streets: shut down and silence all opposition, as tyrants invariably seek to do https://t.co/4uaLngxAxd — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Here’s my @PostOpinions essay with @jgeltzer, @neal_katyal, and @jentaub. I’m proud to be joined by so illustrious a trio as President Trump moves ever closer to authoritarian positions in the U.S. federal courts as well as on America’s streets https://t.co/4uaLngxAxd. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Disgusting. Especially after the police lynching of George Floyd. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This is the least Congress should do. But just watch #MoscowMitch kill it in its crib. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

A riveting question from @JoeBiden — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

An anonymized military force is typical of a dictatorial gangster government — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

A helpful analysis by @RicPatterson: “Donald Trump is merely the apotheosis of a growing disdain among Republicans for the intellect, experience, wisdom, and respect for expertise essential to governance.” https://t.co/Pa6MtZ5nW3 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

8 minutes 46 seconds. Try lying still for that long and imagine being painfully pinned under a grown man’s knee all the while as you struggle to breathe and cry out for help as you sense you’re dying. That’s what George Floyd endured. That’s what the jury will need to understand — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“[W]hen men go overboard with weaponry issues it may be linked to insecurity about their sexuality...[So] fill the street with banners saying, “Mr. President, we’re not really questioning your masculinity.” Very positive message that’ll drive him completely nuts.” — @gailcollins — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

If you’ve “seen the ugliness of war, you don’t lightly summon ...heavily armed troops to deal with civil disturbances; that’s a dangerous ...tactic of an insecure old man who claimed heel spurs to dodge the ...draft and now needs to prove his own manhood.” https://t.co/i1k6QBLAo4 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“President Trump is, temperamentally, a tinpot despot ... Now an election looms, he is unpopular, and he flails about looking for a winning strategy. And if that means trampling over American freedoms, then so be it.” https://t.co/VamXVdUnlu — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Let’s hope this loyalty to the Constitution trumps loyalty to Trump when Don the Con refuses to accept an Electoral College defeat as legitimate and binding — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This little girl means business. Her spirit is a source of confident hope — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This is a phenomenon that enables demagogues like Trump to become dictators https://t.co/OZ9Y9kUwV2 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“At base, the ugly meaning of collaborator carries an implication of treason: betrayal of one’s nation, of one’s ideology, of one’s morality, of one’s values.” https://t.co/3oqDBLbncA — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This from the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: https://t.co/SqUxDuOGCL — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“The mass nonviolent uprising is an index of the life of our democracy, not its death. In scores of cities and towns, hundreds of thousands of Americans, led by the young, have joined in multiracial gatherings to say: Enough” https://t.co/FrIjkvivsW — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“As they survey the epic wreckage his presidency has caused, with their complicity, maybe [Republicans] will find the courage to stop the racist demagogue in their midst the next time — if, after this catastrophe, there is a next time.” https://t.co/4Ed2XwSnIq — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Trump in his closet (aka bunker) talks about Aunt Tifa and his wife Melatona, in a spoof that would be funnier if it weren’t so close to the truth. Still, some relief & laughs here: https://t.co/fGuMX2Mw7v — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Exactly — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

A brazen authoritarian and a draft-dodging coward. A perfect combination. — PolitiTweet.org