Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Another day, another lie, another crime. Anyone surprised? — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Has anybody mentioned Trump promised Mexico would pay for the wall? @RonaldKlain — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I was delighted to contribute to this collection of reactions to the marvelous @heidibschreck play and to share space with great folks like @SpeakerPelosi, @Lin_Manuel, @Sifill_LDF, @NicolleDWallace, and @BarbraStreisand https://t.co/wpaNYgtux9 — PolitiTweet.org

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"The president is negating the Constitution's most fundamental principle -- the separation of powers. [He’s] assaulting . . . our power of the purse, and he's undermining the oath of office he takes to protect and defend the Constitution and the American people.” @SpeakerPelosi — PolitiTweet.org

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More than just the public’s business: something going to the legitimacy of the electoral victory itself. Crimes against the federal election system are uniquely dangerous to democracy and were thus of special concern to the Framers in creating the impeachment power. — PolitiTweet.org

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That implication is the only way to make sense of your comparing Clinton’s perjuring himself to cover up his sexual affair to the scheme in which Trump was an unindicted co-conspirator. And I might well have supported impeaching Clinton if his perjury had been in October 1996. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SteveKornacki just garbled the history of the Clinton impeachment by implying that he cheated to win the presidency when he perjured himself long after being re-elected in 1996. No parallel to Trump’s hush money conspiracy in October 2016. — PolitiTweet.org

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Just Larry will do 👍🏼 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

If you agree our country is in danger, join the #WeThePeopleMarch on September 21 ⬇️ — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Watch this space to learn how our lawsuit to protect El Paso from presidential abuse of emergency power will unfold. So far so good! https://t.co/rB98K4rLNo — PolitiTweet.org

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Huge props for Walmart! This could start a pro-life cascade — and not in the anti-choice sense! https://t.co/lXTf90ODT7 — PolitiTweet.org

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What an exciting prospect! Long past time. https://t.co/uxjvQ2Jqh6 — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump repeated that Dorian could hit Alabama even after the Weather Service expressly corrected his false alarm. Prioritizing his own ego over the truth isn’t harmless. People’s lives get messed up. Lives are risked. Getting used to this mendacity will come back to haunt us. — PolitiTweet.org

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Con Law 101: The Foreign Emoluments Clause is the core anti-corruption clause of Art I. The Domestic Emoluments Clause is the core anti-profiteering clause of Art II. Congress’ consent (or lack of it) is key to the first. It’s irrelevant to the second. Trump is violating both. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tribelaw: PS: Not even getting Congress’s consent could cure this constitutional violation: it’s an absolute prohibition against adding… — PolitiTweet.org

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Memo to POTUS: There are TWO Emoluments Clauses. The one you’re violating when you line your pocket by having Pence stay at your resort & commute is the Domestic EC. The one you’re planning to violate by having the G7 stay at the Doral w/out Congress’s consent is the Foreign EC. — PolitiTweet.org

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“The key distinction is between systems that ... encourage corruption — such as by making legislators dependent on donors — and individual acts in which politicians or regulators choose to elevate private interests, or their own, over the public interest.” https://t.co/9xp2OEQfHS — PolitiTweet.org

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Thanks to our distracted Commander in Chief: “The launchings downplayed by Mr. Trump, including two late last month, have allowed Mr. Kim to test missiles with greater range and maneuverability that could overwhelm American defenses in the region.” https://t.co/7JfhzG9SEi — PolitiTweet.org

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PS: Not even getting Congress’s consent could cure this constitutional violation: it’s an absolute prohibition against adding from other federal accounts to augment the president’s official salary with $ benefits. Will anyone care? — PolitiTweet.org

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Getting Pence & team to stay at the Trump property on Ireland’s west coast & commute daily to & from the meetings on Ireland’s east coast —all to line Trump’s pocket — isn’t just a waste of tax $. It violates the Article II Domestic Emoluments Clause. @RepJerryNadler @RepRaskin — PolitiTweet.org

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Another insane idea is that the death penalty can deter mass murderers who either are counting on suicide by cop — or aren’t “counting” at all. Worse yet, pushing capital punishment gives phony politicians a way to LOOK tough on gun slaughter while doing NOTHING useful. — PolitiTweet.org

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Happy Labor Day! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

RT @WasMasked: @tribelaw https://t.co/f8Rd6ph4nS — PolitiTweet.org

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Those who say banning assault weapons does no good need to consider this ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ — PolitiTweet.org

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The Odessa killer used an AR-15, banned from 1994 to 2004. There’s no good reason for assault weapons like that to be on the streets of a civilized society. Their only use is to murder innocent civilians and cops. Hunters don’t need them. And they’re not needed for self-defense. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump’s fealty to the NRA makes him the moral though not legal equivalent of a murderer in my mind. It’s a good example of something that’s disgusting — but not impeachable. There are plenty of offenses warranting his removal; this one warrants only his electoral defeat. — PolitiTweet.org

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I agree with the decision to withhold the Odessa shooter’s name to deprive him of whatever notoriety he might have sought. But we should know the names of every last lawmaker who is making it easier for haters to slaughter others. — PolitiTweet.org

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What’s obscene isn’t the F-bomb tossed by @BetoORourke but the way our elected “leaders” do the bidding of their NRA paymasters rather than representing their constituents or doing all they can within the Constitution to protect innocent lives from senseless slaughter. — PolitiTweet.org

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Retweet if you share my impatience with the sanctimonious “hopes and prayers” of politicians who claim they’re committed to saving lives — but either do nothing or sign laws making guns more readily available and ubiquitous. If you agree this is all fxxxed up, please retweet! — PolitiTweet.org