Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I’m on CNN with @wolfblitzer tonite at 6:05 pm ET. Topic: Does AG Garland even have the AUTHORITY not to seek an indictment against Trump? Given the evidence, I see that as handing Trump an unearned pardon! But no Attorney General has pardon power. That belongs only to POTUS — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Another @BorowitzReport Special: “Josh Hawley Concerned That Being a Coward Is Overshadowing His Work as a Fascist” https://t.co/mpIV4ETtWF via @NewYorker — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“The fact that Trump continued his disregard for our security — not to mention our 224-year history of peaceful transitions — is circumstantial evidence that should be considered cumulatively with the other evidence amassed by the select committee.” YES!!! https://t.co/IG7s5qN8LM — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

And having grandkids is no less special. It connects you to your children and, if having kids is a taste of immortality, then having grandkids is twice that. Like a double espresso to the single cup of coffee that kids represent . . . — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“There are lots of conservatives who retain a general sense that Biden’s victory wasn’t fair without being committed to John Eastman’s cockamamie plans to force a constitutional crisis.” https://t.co/MwVO1TxpgL — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“These hearings have surely stiffened Ms. Willis’s already considerable resolve to follow the evidence wherever it may lead. That may prove to be the Jan. 6 committee’s most consequential legacy,” since the evidence leads straight to Trump. https://t.co/RlV4klaYoG — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Now that the summer season of the January 6 Committee’s hearings is over, it’s time to tell AG Garland he has NO CHOICE but to INDICT the former president. NOT indicting Trump amounts to giving him an unearned PARDON. Handing out pardons isn’t within any AG’s job description. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Listen to the sounds of the Pillars of Creation Nebula 30 trillion km away: — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“For many activists and legal experts, Dobbs isn’t a far cry from Buck v Bell, which used similar legal reasoning to allow the government to prevent certain people from becoming pregnant in the first place.” https://t.co/5DuIwKYWlp — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I wonder if the 10 text deleters were those Secret Service agents most loyal to Trump and least likely to want to protect Pence (or, for that matter, Pelosi or Schumer) and thus were most likely to have texted things that were pro-insurrection and that they’d have wanted to hide. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Having children connects you to your parents and brings you closer to them in ways you never could have imagined. It’s part of the human enterprise that’s unlike any other part of the ride. It’s a taste of immortality.” Yep! https://t.co/6t3OCGKEjZ — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

There’s no concrete plan for where Steve Denette and his girlfriend will go when they do head off to explore the globe on the Arabella — the boat it took him seven years to build — though they will start small. After all, he still doesn’t know how to sail. https://t.co/exTS3cIgDG — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

My interview by Germany’s PBS (DW News Berlin) (July 22, 2022), here: https://t.co/S59lOeLsGI — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“If you believe Trump’s sociopathy makes him a unique threat to our country’s future, it makes sense to try luring Republicans away from him rather than damning them for their complicity.” That might justify letting them tell what Plato called a Noble Lie. https://t.co/rdsEMmpt76 — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s how the article ends: “Federal prosecutors in DC are also digging into the broader plan by Mr. Trump’s allies to have key swing states submit to Congress slates of electors falsely stating that Mr. Trump had won.” Talk about burying the lede!  https://t.co/DTvbx7zE1y — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

🥹I stammered & stumbled! Serves me right for trying to put words in @Lawrence O’Donnell’s mouth. 😎His questions are always way better than the ones I imagine he’s planning to ask. . . — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“‘They’re all still out there, ready to go,’Mr. Kinzinger said, suggesting that the committee could examine Mr. Trump’s continued efforts after Jan. 6 to influence the election system for his own ends.“ https://t.co/ar6DlxK2t4 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Hope you watch @MSNBC as @Lawrence asks me at 10:15 ET how I expect AG Garland to treat the 187 minutes in which Trump chose not to call off his armed mob as it ravaged the US Capitol & tried to overturn a democratic election. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Subpoena defiance and the insurrection are birds of a feather. The American system of government requires that there be both a peaceful transition of power and a successful investigation of those who seek to interfere with it.” https://t.co/tgGeRqa7Tz — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Read this crucial reminder that the Attorney General is the Nation’s Chief Prosecutor, not its Chief Healer. AG Garland has no power to pardon anyone — including Trump. That power belongs only to POTUS. It’s a matter of jurisdiction. https://t.co/1l70MW90Uw — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

In the spirit of essential inquiry and open-minded debate, I retweet @Matt_Seligman’s responses to @NormEisen’s concededly tentative concerns with the bipartisan draft “fixes” to the 1877 ECA. I’m remaining agnostic. Still analyzing! — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Cipollone should be compelled to testify in the DC grand jury about what Trump told him. No executive privilege or attorney/client privilege would apply and if he tries to take the 5th he should be immunized. That would test Garland’s commitment to democracy and the rule of law. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“The evidence both underscores and adds context to Trump’s most sinister legacy: his role as the leader of a domestic terrorism movement.” https://t.co/pJN6Epj0rM — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Here’s what the Trumpers have planned for us in the Second Coming of this terrible autocrat. If he or his proxies ever seize power again, we’re totally F’d https://t.co/w7U4adxF0c — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

In this gripping true narrative, @Reuters asks me to explain what constitutes a prosecutable “true threat” (eg, “we’ll fucking kill you all”) and why tossing in clever qualifiers — like “after a fair trial, of course” — doesn’t avoid criminal prosecution https://t.co/OTeipY60my — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The most chilling evidence at the J6HC hearing last night: Members of VP Pence’s security detail calling their loved ones to say goodbye because they “were starting to fear for their own lives” — while Trump egged the mob on and refused to lift a finger to call it back. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Rep. Adam Kinzinger put it well: Trump didn’t just “fail to act” for 187 fateful minutes as the armed and violent mob he had assembled and aimed at the Capitol rampaged and desecrated the nation’s citadel of democracy. “He CHOSE not to act.” There’s a world of difference. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“American democracy is dying. There are plenty of medicines that would cure it. Unfortunately, our political dysfunction means we’re choosing not to use them, and as time passes, fewer treatments become available to us.” https://t.co/j35rxCFBtk — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

ICYMI, here’s the interview: https://t.co/355vSb0jMn — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Four justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson — would have granted the administration’s request to put a lower court ruling on hold. It was Jackson’s first vote since joining the court.” https://t.co/DsKpzYMGnx — PolitiTweet.org