Some of the Wit and Wisdom of Laurence Tribe

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From the desk of the former Harvard Law Professor, who once taught AG Merrick Garland — the guy who predicted Garland would eventually indict Trump with sufficient evidence — we have these insightful Tweets on “current events” … including the case of Donald Trump v. the United States:

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Trump: “If you're the president, you can declassify just by saying, 'It's declassified.'” Just “by thinking about it [and] sending it to Mar-a-Lago,” it can be declassified. There “doesn't have to be” a process. He could add: it’s just a Cofvfefe Superpower in the US Constitution

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 22, 2022

“In recent weeks, Trump’s trickle-down idiocy has become a significant midterm-election issue for Republicans, and a drag on some of the party’s most vulnerable Senate candidates.” Poor babies!https://t.co/nuVi0RBgit

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 22, 2022

Judge Dearie’s order “marks the first time that a courts has demanded that Trump’s lawyers back up his claims.”https://t.co/Yrliz4lJc0

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 22, 2022

"The threat of fines and restrictions that could essentially mean the corporate death penalty for the Trump Organization" may be trumped by "the damage to his fragile ego from the suit’s detailed allegations about how he wildly inflated his net worth"https://t.co/e6p5hplGXH

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 22, 2022

A dagger at the heart of the entire Trump ripoff operation, with the New York AG clearly having ample evidence to meet the standard of “more probable than not,” a far lighter burden than “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” as required in all criminal cases https://t.co/0vfOlt1Ud9

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 22, 2022

Trump actually told Hannity “A lot of people are saying the only thing that could account for the severity of the Mar-a-Lago raid is they were looking for” . . . wait for it . . . “Hillary Clinton‘s missing emails.” No shit! He really said that, and with a frowning straight face! https://t.co/dNPSRHehXy

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 22, 2022

No! Even if the top secret documents were “declassified,” selling them to foreign leaders would be espionage. Indeed, just refusing to return them when NARA demanded their return was criminal espionage (18 USC 793(e)) and would’ve been that even if they had been declassified. https://t.co/RGuMmhpZWP

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 22, 2022

Trump’s seething racism is evident in how he dares to call Letitia James, the NY AG, a “racist” just because she happens to be Black. https://t.co/7h3V3qH6S4

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 22, 2022

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Thank you Professor Emeritius for your distinguished career, and continuing active engagement ...

Laurence H. Tribe

Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus

Laurence H. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard, has taught at its Law School since 1968 and was voted the best professor by the graduating class of 2000. The title “University Professor” is Harvard’s highest academic honor, awarded to just a handful of professors at any given time and to just 68 professors in all of Harvard University’s history.

[… Laurence Tribe] has prevailed in three-fifths of the many appellate cases he has argued (including 35 in the U.S. Supreme Court); was appointed in 2010 by President Obama and Attorney General Holder to serve as the first Senior Counselor for Access to Justice; and has written 115 books and articles, including his treatise, American Constitutional Law, cited more than any other legal text since 1950. Former Solicitor General Erwin Griswold wrote: “[N]o book, and no lawyer not on the [Supreme] Court, has ever had a greater influence on the development of American constitutional law,” and the Northwestern Law Review opined that no-one else “in American history has… simultaneously achieved Tribe’s preeminence… as a practitioner and… scholar of constitutional law.”

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Honorary Degrees

• Gonzaga University LL.D. (Honorary) 1980
• University of the Pacific LL.D. (Honorary) 1987
• American University LL.D. (Honorary) 1987
• Illinois Institute of Technology LL.D. (Honorary) 1988
• Colgate University LL.D. (Honorary) 1997
• Hebrew University LH.D. (Honorary) 1998
• New York University LL.D. (Honorary) 2008
• University of Miami LL.D. (Honorary) 2010
• University of New Hampshire School of Law LL.D. (Honorary) 2011
• Government of Mexico degree honoris causa 2011
• Columbia University D.Litt. (Honorary) 2013

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Nixon was a piker, compared to the current career criminal, suing the United States.