Constitutional Professor Laurence Tribe About Trump Picking His Own Jurist

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If you’re not following Harvard Professor Tribe on twitter, you’re missing some of the best legal analysis with hot sauce out there. I will be pushing for the Democrats to restore legitimacy to this illegitimate Supreme Court by either impeaching judges who were not democratically installed on the court or won’t recuse themselves from Trump issues if they were put on the court by Trump, OR, by expanding the court to 11 justices in 2021 when we regain our democracy. I’ve been using the hashtag #ExpandTheCourts2021 for some time now, but whatever you use, get the message out there that Democrats will not let fascism stand on the Supreme Court for decades to come.

Here are some tweets from professor Tribe.

Among the first cases the Court agreed to hear the day after Kennedy announced his retirement will decide whether a Trump pardon from federal prosecution will shield someone from state prosecution even if that state retains its dual sovereignty loophole https://t.co/l5EFajCiRx
Ã¢ÂÂ Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 30, 2018

So American history echoes and underscores the shared moral and legal intuition written in RomeÃ¢ÂÂs Justinian Code some 1450 years old: nemo iudex in sua causa Ã¢ÂÂ no man may be judge in his own case. @jedshug @CoryBooker @AriMelber @chrislhayes @maddow @Lawrence @SenWarren https://t.co/SnQOIcVBFi
Ã¢ÂÂ Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 30, 2018

Read @jedshugÃ¢ÂÂs important thread on the unbroken tradition that has protected the rule of law and American democracy from autocrats who would hand-pick those in a position to determine their remaining in power Ã°ÂÂÂÃ°ÂÂÂ¼ https://t.co/r1PityHCDE
Ã¢ÂÂ Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 30, 2018

If SCOTUS overturns Roe v. Wade in 2019 or 2020, IÃ¢ÂÂd predict a massive backlash: Dems would win the presidency and both the House and Senate in Nov 2020, and Congress would enact a law adding 2 seats to SCOTUS in 2021 or 2022. Remember thereÃ¢ÂÂs no constitutional magic in nine.
Ã¢ÂÂ Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 30, 2018

A president under active criminal investigation of whether he won legitimately and whether he has obstructed that very investigation should not be permitted by a mere Senate majority to designate the justice whose votes could prove pivotal to the fate of his presidency.
Ã¢ÂÂ Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 28, 2018

RESIST! And get ready to fight like you’ve never fought before to save our democracy from the Republican fascist attack.

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