Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Around 10 AM Sunday on CNN I’ll discuss with @FareedZakaria why I think the #MuellerReport calls on the House to begin an impeachment inquiry — and why, despite my caution on impeachment, I think the House should do just that, whatever the Senate seems likely to do. It’s time. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

If an impeached and disgraced but politically acquitted Trump loses in 2020, he’ll be fully subject to criminal prosecution for his massive obstructions of justice in 2017-20. Double jeopardy won’t apply (Art I §3 cl 7) and the statute of limitations (5 yrs) won’t have run. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@RepJerryNadler needs to call not just Mueller, though he needs to be called too, but the first-hand witnesses to Trump’s criminality — people like Don McGahn. As Liz Holtzman notes, that was the key in Nixon’s case. @JohnWDean, not Leon Jaworski. — PolitiTweet.org

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“To not even try to impeach Trump is to collaborate in the Trumpian fiction that he has done nothing impeachable.” https://t.co/6MG0N5dXVz — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Why did Mueller stop short of labeling Trump a criminal? He told us: DOJ policy against trying a sitting president in court would’ve left Trump unable to defend himself. That’s why M left to Congress the decision whether to impeach Trump: He can defend himself in a Senate trial. — PolitiTweet.org

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The American people also need to see, concretely, just what Russia is STILL doing to attack our country — with Trump doing NOTHING to protect voting systems, digital platforms, or the power grid. Cambridge Analytica and Brad Parscale haven’t gone away. We’re sitting ducks. — PolitiTweet.org

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Two things matter: 1. The House can no longer let the odds of Senate conviction hold impeachment back. It’s a point of principle, as @SenWarren said. 2. Only fully public hearings, visually enacting Mueller’s evidence and findings, will move public opinion. — PolitiTweet.org

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House Judiciary Committee member @mad4pa: “We can’t sit on our hands just because the Senate is sitting on theirs.” Exactly. — PolitiTweet.org

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This: — PolitiTweet.org

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Postponing impeachment hearings no longer makes sense. That it’d be unprincipled is clear enough. But it’d be politically unwise as well: To quote Shakespeare, “We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.” https://t.co/tkyZ19sLWy — PolitiTweet.org

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A BIG MISTAKE TO AVOID: Assuming that no criminal conspiracy means no impeachable collusion. Wrong! https://t.co/OVDtdbVpEC — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The point of public hearings into whether Trump’s conduct warrants impeachment and removal is both to learn all the facts and, equally important, to win public support for a way forward. Such hearings must begin now. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The Mueller Report all but invites the House of Representatives to give solemn consideration to impeaching the president. Nobody who reads the entirety of the redacted report Mueller released yesterday can avoid that conclusion. — PolitiTweet.org

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Good for @SenWarren! Hearings looking to Trump’s possible impeachment must begin. Waiting for the 2020 election isn’t enough. — PolitiTweet.org

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What are we to make of the coincidence of “FUCT” as a purported trademark in a SCOTUS case and “I’m FUCKED” (unredacted!) in a classic Trump quotation from the long-awaited Mueller Report? — PolitiTweet.org

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Exactly right! @PeteButtigieg on target — as usual! — PolitiTweet.org

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A great example of potentially impeachable oath-defying dereliction of duty: Trump responding to Mueller Report by taking a victory lap rather than doing anything at all to protect our election systems from ongoing Russian attack. Not treason, exactly, but treachery for sure. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@PeteButtigieg’s perfect answer when asked re impeachment: “There’s plenty of evidence showing that Trump should be impeached, but since I’m not in Congress I’m focused on replacing him the old-fashioned way.” So much better than the prepackaged crap most candidates serve up. — PolitiTweet.org

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But of course public hearings guided by the redacted report’s incredibly helpful roadmap must not await the outcome of the predictably protracted subpoena litigation. Hearings looking to possible impeachment must begin immediately. If not sooner! — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s a searchable version: — PolitiTweet.org

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Glad @jonathanalter agrees, but the book @JoshuaMatz8 and I wrote didn’t “recommend against impeachment.” It argued that the decision to impeach is a grave one and mustn’t be taken unless and until the dangers of holding back exceed those of moving forward. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

It’s premature to decide the damning facts Mueller reported won’t matter pre-2020. Live testimony can shake even seemingly settled loyalties. That’s what made all the difference with Nixon. @RepRaskin @RepSwalwell @RepJerryNadler @RepAdamSchiff @RepCummings @RepMaxineWaters — PolitiTweet.org

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”When the president interferes with an investigation for improper reasons, it is an abuse of the public trust in a way that a normal obstruction of justice crime is not. That means the impeachment process is well-suited to evaluating it.” https://t.co/2Gw0XVtkTN — PolitiTweet.org

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“Rather than being exculpatory, the brazen, public nature of the president’s apparent obstruction” — and collusion — “is one of the reasons it presents such a grave threat to our democratic values.” — PolitiTweet.org

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“The fact that much of the evidence of Mr. Trump’s obstruction occurred in plain view of the American people diminishes neither the seriousness of that conduct nor the need for further inquiry.” — PolitiTweet.org

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“The greatest risk at this moment in our history is . . . that we will send a clear message to future would-be authoritarians that our institutions cannot withstand a naked assault on the proposition that no person is above the law.” — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a vital reminder of the grave threats to national security that @RepAdamSchiff & the Intel Committees must investigate now. @jgeltzer & @rgoodlaw perform a major public service with this MUST READ op-ed about our seemingly compromised president: https://t.co/PqGRH9zXYc — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I’ve previously inveighed against the dangers of too much impeachment talk. But the time has come for the House Judiciary Committee to open hearings into Trump’s “high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Let the facts drive the process. https://t.co/yagdD510F7 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The open case against Roger Stone will almost certainly expose Trump’s personal involvement in orchestrating with Rick Gates the Wikileaks dump of material hacked by Russia. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Must read this from @dorfonlaw 04/mueller-report-counterspin-we-still.html — PolitiTweet.org