Laurence Tribe

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

168 years ago today Louisiana and South Carolina ratified the great 14th Amendment (giving it the needed 3/4 majority) overturning Dred Scott, declaring all persons to be equal under the law, and empowering Congress to enforce its provision. Its promise remains sadly unfulfilled — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Unfair to @Liz_Cheney. This came from a 2019 clip. It was NOT about abortion or today’s debate about Roe v. Wade. Say she was misinformed about post-birth practices. She may well have been. But be careful not to imply Cheney is speaking post-Dobbs. She isn’t. This is reckless. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

A great sign 👇🏼 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

On reflection, I think @TruBluMajority is right. Making a justice who joins in indefensibly trashing women’s rights in a gross abuse of judicial power uncomfortable in public settings is nothing compared to the abuse that triggers that righteous protest. I withdraw my objection: — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

PARENTAL IRRESPONSIBILITY SHOULD TRIGGER LIABILITY: You know your kid has lots of knives around and “wants a gun. You know that he has attempted suicide. You know that he's made threats of killing people. Then, you help him get his hands on guns?” NO WAY! https://t.co/bVJhBu4Ds0 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Florida Gov. Ron Desantis and former VIce President Mike Pence seem like they are running. Stewart would just wood-chip right through those two stiff-as-a-board speakers.” And he’d eat Donald Trump or Tucker Carlson for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. https://t.co/D2ihPP7Ywy — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Schenck “arranged over the years for about 20 couples to fly to Washington to visit with and entertain Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and the late Antonin Scalia.” Wildly unethical, to put it mildly. https://t.co/rmYVJsI2iC — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

LoL — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The SCOTUS decision in Dobbs has brought the Surveillance State down on over 150 million Americans. This is just the beginning. It’s on the Alito Five. I wonder: Do they even care? — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“The mathematician John Conway once asked, ‘How can things be there without actually being there?’” I taught myself calculus at 14 but still find abstract math as beautiful as it is mysterious. Nothing is remotely comparable. https://t.co/rKJhOctWxf — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“Figuring out how to thread that needle is difficult, as is figuring out when you can legally treat women who are pregnant, if they’re facing various emergencies, because it is very difficult to know what you can and cannot do.” https://t.co/R886ZIeyNt — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

The Mazars financial documents the House Oversight Committee needs — and Trump wants his accountants to hide — will take another trip to SCOTUS when Trump predictably appeals his partial loss in the DC Circuit today. https://t.co/Mx0tvypZO8 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Men also have sex for fun. It’s not just a women’s issue.” “For the puritanical tyrants seeking to control our bodies, that’s a problem.” There are 5 Supreme Court Justices who might as well come from The Divine Republic of Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale. https://t.co/5191OOta2u — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

To clean up our air, we must clean up our courts. That means passing the Judiciary Act of 2021 to add four seats to the Supreme Court. That’s not court packing it’s court unpacking. The #TrumpPacked Court has gone rogue. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I must be out of sync and "unwoke" here, but much as I detest and disrespect the Dobbs decision by Alito and the gang that joined him (Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett), I don't see the point of making daily life hell for the Alito Five. It won't help their victims a bit. — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

I’m with you on this holiday, Georgr — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This REAL history will help a better-informed, more honest and less stacked Supreme Court correct its egregious errors in Dobbs (and Bruen), just as Barnette overruled Gobitis in three years. We shouldn’t be content to wait 50 years.  https://t.co/h8FBDANOI3 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Always remember the victims, erase the crazed killers after learning all we can about what helped them do it, then celebrate the victims and be grateful for the lives they shared with us, recalling that “the pain now is part of the happiness then: That’s the deal.”— C.S. Lewis). — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

This history will help an “unpacked” 13-justice Supreme Court in 2023, 2024, or 2025 overrule Dobbs as “egregiously wrong the day it was decided.” Maybe even 9-4 instead of 8-5! See West Va.v. Barnette (1943), overruling Minersville v. Gobitis (1940): https://t.co/h8FBDANOI3 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Leading historical societies conclude that the “misrepresentations” in Dobbs “are now enshrined in a text that becomes authoritative for legal reference and citation in the future.” But scholars and lawyers should agree never to cite this fake “history.” https://t.co/h8FBDANOI3 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“No reasonable person reading the two decisions [Dobbs and Bruen] can believe they were made in good faith. It is obvious that they were made to suit a fixed political agenda, reasoned backward from the vengeful results.” https://t.co/RobjaKrjbm — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Speaking of the “Sounds of Silence” . . . — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Listen to one of the greatest recordings ever — Simon & Garfunkel’s 1990 performance of “The Sounds of Silence”: https://t.co/Nik4qJJEEQ — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

President Biden will take several executive actions today to protect access to abortion. Those actions have been carefully vetted within the White House Counsel’s Office and at DOJ and are assuredly within the president’s legal authority: https://t.co/ubj3Cy45kk — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“As people die in the streets in ever greater numbers, and as women’s autonomy grows ever more curtailed, calling out the Court’s legitimacy may be the only way to save it.” https://t.co/RobjaKrjbm — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“No reasonable person reading the two decisions [Roe and Bruen] can believe they were made in good faith. It is obvious that they were made to suit a fixed political agenda, reasoned backward from the vengeful results.” https://t.co/RobjaKrjbm — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

Count on the money-hungry gun lobby in the US to argue that even restrictive gun laws like Japan’s can’t stop bad guys with guns from killing people. A bogus argument. We have around 40,000 gun deaths a year. Japan has an average of 10. Case closed. https://t.co/LE9h7yfVPh — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

My op-ed with Dennis Aftergut celebrates “unrelenting prosecutors like Fani Willis for holding the 2020 conspirators to account so that this nation, conceived in liberty, can endure as a government of, by, and for the people.” @GlobeOpinion https://t.co/JX8uyb8cC0 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

My op-ed with Dennis Aftergut celebrates “unrelenting prosecutors like Fani Willis to hold the 2020 conspirators to account so that this nation, conceived in liberty, can endure as a government of, by, and for the people.” @GlobeOpinion https://t.co/JX8uyb8cC0 — PolitiTweet.org

Laurence Tribe @tribelaw

“This equation yields a probability of roughly one in 950 million.” But that’s not quite zero, as the author points out. 😎 https://t.co/va7oFhfH1a — PolitiTweet.org