Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

An issue linking Dorian to the Odessa slaughter: Dangerous people shouldn’t have access to guns. Check. ✅. So: Should people who float the idea of nuking Category 5 hurricanes to protect resorts like Mara Lago have access to the nuclear football? Just asking for a friend. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Just a thought: If people with “mental problems,” as President Trump puts it, “shouldn’t get their hands on firearms,” how about letting such people get and keep their hands on, oh let’s say, hydrogen bombs thousands of times more powerful than the one that devastated Hiroshima? — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Yes! Check this out. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

President Trump just said he’s “never heard of another Category 5 hurricane.” Not to minimize the horror of Dorian, Cat 5 hurricanes occur roughly once every three years in this Atlantic region. Katrina was an example. Andrew was another. — PolitiTweet.org

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“So yes, this is f---ed up ... If we don't call it out for what it is, if we're not able to speak clearly. If we're not able to act decisively, then we will continue to have this kind of bloodshed in America, and I cannot accept that.” This is the crusade @BetoORourke should lead — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Anybody looking for a good definition of insanity? https://t.co/wK6P1pm98I — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Ode to Billy Joel: The climate deniers won’t be able to say “We didn’t start the fire.” — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939: — PolitiTweet.org

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“Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.” — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve been saying from the outset that this looks like Bribery to me. And Bribery, like Treason, is explicitly defined as a “high Crime and Misdemeanor” and thus as an impeachable offense. https://t.co/UFpeZpvHDO — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Morally unfit barely scratches the surface. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

.@RWPUSA nails the precise rule Sycophant General Barr is violating with his $30k holiday bash at Trump’s DC hotel. It’s the ethical breach that truly stinks, rule or no rule. And, because Barr had already sold out in full, he must be borrowing the amount he’s now giving Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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America’s experience with Trump’s blatantly norm-defying moves should make us ask: How much difference does it make that ours is a written Constitution (unlike Britain’s) if we don’t take the #impeachment power seriously? My answer: not a helluva lot. https://t.co/dfGLRzIgeW — PolitiTweet.org

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Before you go all ballistic on @Milbank for daring to suggest what Abrams, Bullock, and O’Rourke should consider doing, pause to ask yourself what you’re doing when you try to shame a journalist into keeping his views of patriotic duty to himself. https://t.co/6Xz0zvhwwX — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Ever since I spoke at a Federalist Society gathering opposite Justice Scalia years ago, I assumed it was an avowedly ideological advocacy group that occasionally welcomed presentations by adversaries. It’s news to me that anyone ever claimed otherwise. https://t.co/RexgmchQQA — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Thanks! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

RT @DearAuntCrabby: Once again, @tribelaw nails it! https://t.co/nlQyNZOiFG — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump’s massive Emoluments Clause violations are prime targets for Article I of whatever Articles of Impeachment the House Judiciary Committee under @RepJerryNadler recommends to the full House late this year. https://t.co/cK5Flgiww6 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tribelaw: Trump’s plan to deport desperately sick kids who are getting lifesaving medical care here is unthinkably cruel. I’ll be stunn… — PolitiTweet.org

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If the Twitter CEO’s account can be hacked, then none of us is safe. What a shxxshow! https://t.co/ae2csPLmmf — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

An important roadmap to LGBTQ justice by the incomparable @JoshuaMatz8. Unless you’ve completely given up on legal protection for basic human rights for all, you need to read this. You’ll be glad you did. — PolitiTweet.org

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Agree, however, that we can’t just run the numbers on the premise that turnout would’ve remained constant under a different system of allocating each State’s Electoral Vote. Turnout probably would’ve grown. So I agree with @MaraGay on balance, though the NPV would be way better. — PolitiTweet.org

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I agree that the winner-takes-all rule is avoidable and should probably go the way of the Dodo —but it’s not clear that it would’ve changed the Electoral College outcome in 2000 or 2016. Have you checked, the numbers, @MaraGay? — PolitiTweet.org

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I know that as well as anyone, @JRubinBlogger. You know I do. But assuming impeachment is pointless or inevitably counterproductive unless it leads to removal — even though it’s clearly the right thing to do — is just too defeatist and morally compromising for me to live with. — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course he’s both. Trump has been a Russian asset AND an idiot, how useful is unclear, from the beginning. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

.@JRubinBlogger says “We have no deus ex machina — not Mattis, not Mueller, not the 25th Amendment and not impeachment.” But why NOT impeachment? I refuse to accept that we are so constitutionally impotent. If we are, it’s our own doing. https://t.co/VXGnWvyeew — PolitiTweet.org

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A devastatingly brilliant dissection by Linda Greenhouse, a master surgeon of the legal world and its deadliest manipulations by right-wing zealots undaunted by self-contradiction and hypocrisy https://t.co/4VjmCLnJfR — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

As the world burns, the Trump EPA pours methane on the flames. They could hardly do worse if their express mission was to destroy the planet. https://t.co/TFvGTCiqSu — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The IG report clears Comey of leaking classified info and of lawbreaking but dumps on Comey for blowing the whistle on Trump’s obstruction of justice, reflecting the IG’s frankly bizarre moral compass. This analysis lays it out clearly and fairly ⬇️ https://t.co/fmYgvtXprt — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Normalization of Trump ... —allowing those things to be defined merely as a political problem needing a political cure—degrades democracy. Calculating political advantage, too, ... misses the point of taking part in politics, which is to defend values.” https://t.co/5kW3T6LKfU — PolitiTweet.org