Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Always listen to @Kasparov63 when it comes either to chess strategy or to KGB tactics and Putin’s propaganda techniques. He’s dominated the first and suffered under the second. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The incriminating timing of all the just-released OMB/DOD emails about withholding defense until Ukraine provides dirt is supposedly sheer coincidence. https://t.co/RIUJJW48QP — PolitiTweet.org

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Pence’s Chief if Staff Mark Short says it was just “coincidence” that OMB’s Michael Duffy emailed DOD to hold the $391M just 2 hours after Trump’s July 25 shakedown call with Ukraine’s president Zelensky. How gullible do these dudes think we are? Duffy must testify in the Senate — PolitiTweet.org

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The timeline is damning, as @HeidiNBC shows here: — PolitiTweet.org

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This timeline is devastating to Trump’s impeachment defense https://t.co/cW9bMO2yf8 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Smoking Javelins! https://t.co/AfntMszeQp — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

When voting for articles of impeachment meant only that good reason exists to put an official on trial, it might’ve made sense to say impeachment occurs only when the House presents its charges to the Senate. But these articles conclude the president in fact committed high crimes — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the origin of the misimpression that Congress is bound to treat impeachment as mere authorization for the House to go to the Senate. It’s not. House Rules Ch. 27, Sec.8 expressly says an official *is* impeached by House adoption of the articles. https://t.co/BA3XbtWfeH — PolitiTweet.org

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Excellent insight, though attributing rational thought to Trump missives might be a mistake. — PolitiTweet.org

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Looks like #PresidentTrump* wants to keep the option of extorting Ukraine on the table after all! https://t.co/P3bYGHS4gZ — PolitiTweet.org

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Exactly right @ConnieSchultz! This is John Rawls’s “veil of ignorance” 🤓 test made concrete — or the “shoe on the other foot” 🦶 test made less smelly 👞 👟 👠 👃 — PolitiTweet.org

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.@stevenmazie is on a streak! — PolitiTweet.org

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Royally funny, @stevenmazie! 😎 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Wittgenstein is good company. I keep his *Philosophical Investigations* not too far from my copy of the U.S. Constitution and the Federalist Papers. . . — PolitiTweet.org

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Henceforth it’ll be #PresidentTrump* — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Finally we learn where @realDonaldTrump gets his constitutional education ⬇️ — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Here’s another analogy: The Supreme Court’s most important case, Marbury v. Madison (1803), treated Wm. Marbury’s commission as legally effective as soon as it was signed and sealed — even though it was never physically delivered. — PolitiTweet.org

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1. H.Res.755 says DJT “is” impeached and separately adds that the articles are then to be exhibited to the Senate. 2. It can’t be that, if the Senate just refuses to let the House “exhibit” its impeachment articles, the president won’t have been impeached at all! — PolitiTweet.org

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Beyond the academic dustup over whether Trump was “impeached” on Dec.18 (I say he was), there’s the deeper debate over whether “lawyer talk” about the Constitution should track ordinary discourse (I say it should try hard to do so). Here’s the scoop: https://t.co/2yUJY6bp4D — PolitiTweet.org

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What a nutjob! He needs to get a life. — PolitiTweet.org

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Hey, it just occurred to me the White House can’t argue per @NoahRFeldman that President Trump wasn’t really “impeached” on Dec 18 now that it has told the DC Circuit on Dec 19 that Trump’s impeachment on Dec 18 mooted the McGahn case. There goes that money-raising scam! — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump’s response to CT’s “indictment of his profound moral failings with an argument ... thoroughly transactional and megalomaniacal” is of a piece with his treatment of Debbie Dingell and ... wait for it: Ukraine https://t.co/zAu3IXLQUW — PolitiTweet.org

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Ridiculous. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Neither @SpeakerPelosi nor I have proposed what @AlanDersh oddly attributes to us — withholding the Articles of Impeachment until a Democratic Senate is elected (or perhaps forever). That could well be an unconstitutional Bill of Attainder. So what? https://t.co/BarphYe8Q8 — PolitiTweet.org

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“It is time ...to point ...directly at Sens. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), [&] Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) ...Do they want to be part of a sham that risks leaving in place Putin’s pawn?” https://t.co/bMlXXOuJ7V — PolitiTweet.org

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But it *does* matter, @marty_lederman. Do you really like the dynamic displayed by DJT ranting & raving that one of “their” experts assures him that he hasn’t even been “impeached”? Doesn’t *constitutional politics* matter as much as constitutional *law*? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NatashaBertrand: Worth noting that Laurence Tribe @tribelaw disagrees, says Feldman is making a "clever but wholly mistaken point" ht… — PolitiTweet.org

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Memo to @senatemajldr McConnell: A huge risk you run if you keep guys like Bolton & Mulvaney from testifying at trial: when they finally DO go public — and they will — it’ll be clear to everyone exactly what you were hiding. That time bomb is bound to explode eventually. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This *should* matter. But these days almost nothing seems to matter. Hopefully the dam will burst at some point. Maybe a little prayer would be worth trying 🙏🏼 ? — PolitiTweet.org

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This man is having a total meltdown. His thought processes are increasingly deranged. It’d be sad if he didn’t have little things like the nuclear codes at his fingertips. His power makes his instability terrifying. — PolitiTweet.org