Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Pro-life” is a disgusting misnomer for the movement to turn the clock back to the pre-Roe days. The movement is anti-woman and, often, pro-death too. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Exactly, @YAppelbaum: History disproves the premise that impeachment by the House necessarily helps the president unless the Senate is poised to convict. That’s just not true. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@walterdellinger is right: “The House’s focus on process — such as requesting redacted material — constitutes a ... suggestion that what we have seen from Mueller is not enough to assess the president. That is just false.” Right. Trump is a felon. https://t.co/B41eARV1M5 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

White House Counsel Cipollone letter doesn’t get any better when you read the full text, https://t.co/kDzR9g0glW — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Below, I’ve explained why this bill would be upheld even under Citizens United. It’s a practical, non-Utopian step every state should take. No constitutional amendment is needed to get this done. @ronfein @JohnBonifaz — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

There’s a technical legal term for this whole White House argument: it’s total horseshit. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

.@SenBlumenthal has this right. If anything, he understates Trump’s chutzpah. It’s basically indistinguishable from what dictators like Putin or Xi or Kim would say. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I agree fully with my colleague Randall Kennedy’s denunciation of Harvard University’s mistreatment of my colleagues Ronald Sullivan and Stephanie Robinson. Of the many blunders Harvard has made in my 50 years as a professor here, I recall none worse. https://t.co/lDN6sHW42Q — PolitiTweet.org

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So the White House Counsel is now taking the same insane position Trump’s personal lawyer took with Judge Mehta — the position the judge rightly found astonishing and will surely reject. The argument comes down to Louis XIV’s “L’etat c’est moi!” https://t.co/0vWiUozfTS — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Here’s a useful map regardless of your place on the spectrum of views in the abortion debate — a map that might even influence your perspective on what questions to ask and how to answer them https://t.co/TdprnFbGLG — PolitiTweet.org

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As I told @JRubinBlogger, “For the ... court to accept [Trump’s] arguments would be astonishing — an unthinkable loss for the separation of powers.” No federal judge could uphold the claim that Congress can’t look into presidential corruption or abuse https://t.co/hPKQhYLYE0 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

No schadenfreude here, just a thought: One thing that might tilt 45 away from wanting to become 46 could be a shift in his $$ calculus: If even his illegal emoluments don’t offset losses like these, maybe, just maybe, he’d rather exit with a Pence pardon? https://t.co/YDQZOhxZ0q — PolitiTweet.org

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I may be a “glass-half-full” guy but I’m not naive. I have no illusions that justices can be shamed out of inconsistency. But rubbing their noses in it remains important — for a whole bunch of reasons. And we might as well get a kick out of what we know. It’s one of our few perks — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

VOTE NO ON VITTER — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I’m with @danpfeiffer here. Trump’s departure is essential but insufficient. The currents that propelled his rise will outlast him. So too will the wreckage he’ll leave behind. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This @Edsall essay is a masterful synthesis. It poses the essential question: After Trump, what? I tend to agree more with @dziblatt, Steve Levitsky & Theda Skocpol than with @jackbalkin’s riff on Skowronek. @WalterIsaacson @stengel @TimothyDSnyder https://t.co/otp1teeNAZ — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Explosive reporting about Jeff Sessions. Ship of fools meets boatload of crooks. All who touch Trump turn to lead. Great read from @murraywaas https://t.co/BLp2bTjDe0 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Paradoxically, the unproductive chatter about whether and when to impeach could be dialed down as live testimony about potentially impeachable offenses occupies center stage. When the focus turns to exactly what Trump knew and when he knew it, people will be riveted by the facts — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tribelaw: Memo to @BetoORourke and @staceyabrams (and other hopefuls): Democrats must do more than beat Trump in 2020. We face an uphil… — PolitiTweet.org

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Having conceded that its change of course in shielding states from being sued other states’ courts wasn’t based on the Constitution’s text, the conservative justices will be harder pressed to complain that the text doesn’t support rulings like Roe v. Wade https://t.co/f1yayV1hBL — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Having conceded that its change of course in shielding states from being sued other states’ courts wasn’t based on the Constitution’s text, the conservative justices will be harder pressed to complain that the text doesn’t support rulings like Roe v. Wade https://t.co/e2XbcDoR01 — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/f1yayV1hBL — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

If signed by Alabama’s Governor, this law criminalizing all abortions, without exceptions for rape or incest, is too extreme to make a decision upholding an injunction against its enforcement a likely case for SCOTUS to agree to hear. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Gasp. I gather the judge had to work hard not to burst out laughing. — PolitiTweet.org

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Good News! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Good point, @jgeltzer, but your solution seems problematic. @RepSwalwell, @RepJerryNadler, and other co-sponsors of the No President is Above the Law Act need to fine-tune their proposed language. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Taken from Concert For George) https://t.co/4LFw836uuq via @YouTube — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

A magnificent Kol Nidrei Pablo Ferrández, Max Bruch Kol Nidrei Op 47, Megumi Hashiba piano https://t.co/EyLkA0ITyn via @YouTube — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I agree fully with @stevenmazie here. Breyer is talking about constitutional precedents well beyond abortion rights. And Breyer’s concerns seem amply justified. — PolitiTweet.org

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Overruling Roe and Casey would upset much deeper and broader societal reliance interests than the “case-specific costs” deemed insufficient in Franchise Tax Bd. v. Hyatt to preserve Nevada v. Hall. So there is cause for concern but not panic. https://t.co/KT8xHqzqxz — PolitiTweet.org