Laurence Tribe

In political writing about the federal judiciary, there is a convention to treat the partisan affiliation of a judge or justice as a mere curiosity;…

Laurence Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus of Law at Harvard Law School and author of American Constitutional Law, discusses Donald Trump’s multiple legal…

Laurence Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus of Law at Harvard Law School and author of American Constitutional Law, discusses Donald Trump’s multiple legal…

In political writing about the federal judiciary, there is a convention to treat the partisan affiliation of a judge or justice as a mere curiosity;…

Donald Trump’s legal perils have become insurmountable and could snuff out the former US president’s hopes of an election-winning comeback, according to political analysts and…

When it comes to the rule of law, this hasn’t been a great week for Donald Trump. On Tuesday, his own team’s handpicked special master…

Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss why it’s “impossible to not indict Donald Trump” for withholding top secret government information.

A review by Laurence Tribe: The chaos and cruelty unleashed in late June by the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which wiped…

An op-ed co-written by Laurence Tribe: Judge Aileen Cannon’s two rulings in the Mar-a-Lago affair offer a master class in illustrating how a young and…

Thursday’s 10-page opinion by U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon denying the government’s motion for a stay in the Mar-a-Lago documents case is being savaged…

The federal judge who ordered that a special master be assigned to examine documents retrieved by the FBI last month from former President Donald Trump’s…

Bloomberg Law – Chief Justice Roberts, I have a message from your former professor: You are no longer the star student. “Having had both John…

The Washington Post – The Trump legal brain trust’s latest filing has been met with proper ridicule. From its characterization of the documents retrieved from…

New York Daily News – The Justice Department on Thursday asked a federal judge in Florida to tweak a ruling that has limited the government’s…

MSNBC – MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell speaks to Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe about the ruling by Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon naming a special master to…

The Washington Post – A judge on Wednesday struck down Michigan’s 1931 anti-abortion law, months after suspending it, the latest development over abortion rights in…

The Guardian – An op-ed co-written by Laurence Tribe: The best thing one can say about Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision Monday appointing a special master…

Of all people, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul (Tex.), should know something about the danger posed by an…

A Harvard legal scholar ripped a federal judge’s decision that granted former President Donald Trump’s request to appoint a special master to review materials seized…

The Biden administration is firing back at Republicans considering bringing a legal challenge against President Joe Biden’s historic move to forgive the student debt of…

A federal judge in Florida ruled Monday that a special master will review the documents seized in last month’s FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago…

A number of Republican legislators may bring a legal challenge against President Joe Biden’s historic announcement last week that he’d forgive the student debt of…

Republican state attorneys general and other leading conservatives are exploring a slew of potential lawsuits targeting President Biden’s plan to cancel some student debt —…

Former President Donald Trump’s request for a “special master” to oversee the review of evidence gathered in the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago estate has…

President Biden continued his newly aggressive tone in a speech in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. He condemned GOP threats of violence intended to dissuade the DOJ…

Former President Donald Trump was mercilessly mocked after demanding that he be retroactively declared the 2020 presidential election winner or be allowed to hold a…

The redacted FBI affidavit released on Friday regarding the Aug. 8 search of the defeated former president’s Florida estate reveals many things about Donald Trump’s…

Forget about inflation, abortion, job growth or the economy. The real issue is who will be indicted first — Donald Trump or Hunter Biden? The…

Do Harvard-trained lawyers deserve to have any portion of their student loans canceled under the Biden administration’s new debt-relief plan? That’s the question some are…

Harvard Law School professor @tribelaw tells CNN’s @wolfblitzer that the unredacted portions of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit show “overwhelming evidence” of serious federal crimes. Watch here:…

Commentary by Laurence Tribe on classified documents not being returned by Trump after repeated request.

American Friends of Rabin Medical Center presents its monthly leaders forum, Global Connections with Robert Siegel: Navigating the New Normal, on society, the economy, real…

Former President Donald Trump’s attempt to legally block the Department of Justice (DOJ) from reviewing documents seized at Mar-a-Lago is likely doomed, according to a…

Former President Donald Trump on Monday filed a lawsuit demanding the return of documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago, arguing that the feds did…

An op-ed co-written by Laurence Tribe: Jan. 6 taught us how fragile our republic is. It survived because a few stalwart Republican officials put country…

Donald Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 400 times in New York’s investigation into his business’s finances. Of course, the defeated former president and…

An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: Sen. Lindsey Graham faces his courthouse moment of truth. On Aug. 15, Atlanta federal District Court judge Leigh Martin…

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, 80, is a professor emeritus at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1968, counting among his former students Barack…

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell speaks to Harvard constitutional law Professor Laurence Tribe about new details of the Justice Department investigation into the classified documents that were…

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, 80, is a professor emeritus at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1968, counting among his former students Barack…

The leak of a draft majority opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion, was an unprecedented breach in a process typically shrouded in secrecy and a blow to the nation’s highest court, which in recent years has been plagued by questions about its impartiality from both the left and the right. In a statement released Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the authenticity of the draft, written by Justice Samuel Alito, but insisted that it was not final. He called the leak a “singular and egregious breach” and said that he has directed the marshal of the court to investigate its source. The Gazette spoke with Laurence H. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School, about the leak, how it might have happened, and what it could mean for the court’s reputation and the outcome of the case. The interview was edited for clarity and length.

An op-ed by Laurence Tribe: Nobody will soon forget where they were when they got Monday’s news: The right of women to control their own bodies and to decide whether and when to have a child will no longer belong to them if the leaked Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade becomes law this summer. But there is more. Reading the draft, written by Justice Samuel Alito, you quickly learn that all the rights people have long taken for granted — like the rights to decide whom to marry, whether to use birth control, with whom to have sex, how to raise your children, and an endless list of other freedoms — will no longer be protected unless you can point to language in the Constitution expressly guaranteeing those rights, or convince five Supreme Court justices that they are “deeply rooted in this nation’s history and tradition” and “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.”

Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe is warning Tuesday that if the draft opinion by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito becomes law more than the right to a safe abortion is at risk: Same sex marriage, access to contraception, and other “unenumerated” rights could also come to an end. Tribe raised the possibility of wider implications the nation could face in the wake of the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion purportedly written by Alito on the court’s pending decision on a Mississippi state law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Mississippi law does not have any exceptions victims of rape, incest or if the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother. ... “Predictable next steps after the Alito opinion becomes law: a nationwide abortion ban, followed by a push to roll back rights to contraception, same-sex marriage, sexual privacy, and the full array of textually unenumerated rights long taken for granted,’' Tribe wrote.

Democratic lawmakers and constitutional scholars say the leaked Supreme Court decision that appears to overturn abortion rights could lead to overturning the right to same-sex marriage and other civil rights. Part of the opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, explicitly references Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage, and Lawrence v. Texas, a decision that legalized sodomy. ... Legal scholar Laurence Tribe echoed Ocasio-Cortez's statement noting "predictable next steps" if the leaked opinion officially becomes law. "A nationwide abortion ban, followed by a push to roll back rights to contraception, same-sex marriage, sexual privacy, and the full array of textually unenumerated rights long taken for granted," Tribe tweeted.

Social media was quickly afire Monday night after an unprecedented leak showed the U.S. Supreme Court has circulated a draft opinion that would overturn two key abortion rights precedents. The draft acquired by Politico was written by Justice Samuel Alito, and would overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The decision would cap off Mississippi’s defense of its ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a case that eventually morphed into a call to overturn the two landmark decisions. ... >> Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School: “If the Alito opinion savaging Roe and Casey ends up being the Opinion of the Court, it will unravel many basic rights beyond abortion and will go further than returning the issue to the states: It will enable a GOP Congress to enact a nationwide ban on abortion and contraception.” (Twitter)

A complicated legal case has been reduced to a provocative headline: “Can a public high school coach pray publicly?” The takes were just as hot in reply. “Jesus said to pray in a ‘closet,’ not on the 50-yard line,” read an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, while The Atlantic implored: “Let Coach Kennedy Pray.” ... “The court is moving in the direction of encouraging religion to enter the public square and to infuse government. And there never has been a period since the 19th century when the court was that willing to just let the wall of separation between church and state down,” Laurence Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard, said.