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Trump’s Most Pivotal, Incriminating Admission on CNN
May 17, 2023
An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: In terms of criminal law, among several self-destructive statements former President Donald Trump made in CNN’s “Town Hall,” the…
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A group of Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday announced the reintroduction of legislation that would expand the Supreme Court by adding four seats. While speaking about…
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Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School professor emeritus, joins ‘Squawk on the Street’ to discuss if Tribe’s op-ed piece made any waves in the debt ceiling…
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If Joe Biden and House Republicans fail to reach a debt deal, the crisis could get tossed to the Supreme Court — where it would…
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The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
May 15, 2023
“To take the 14th Amendment off the table is to say that part of the Constitution no longer binds us. We can’t do that…it would…
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‘Mr. President, if you’re listening…’: Laurence Tribe on how to end GOP debt default crisis
May 11, 2023
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is joined by Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Laurence Tribe, who’s advised three Democratic presidents on separation of powers and the 14th Amendment,…
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President Joe Biden made waves Tuesday when he acknowledged he was considering using the 14th Amendment to end the debt standoff — before saying he…
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Biden “considering” debt ceiling escape clause
May 10, 2023
President Biden publicly signaled on Tuesday that he’s weighing options to take debt ceiling default off the table in the future, including a controversial theory…
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Laurence Tribe: President’s ‘duty’ is to pay debts despite GOP giving him an ‘impossible choice‘
May 9, 2023
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is joined by Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe who explains what the president’s constitutional duties are despite the demands from House Republicans…
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Why I Changed My Mind on the Debt Limit
May 8, 2023
Guest essay by Laurence Tribe: At this moment, at the White House as well as the Departments of Treasury and Justice, officials are debating a…
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Senior White House officials see enormous risks in trying to resolve the debt ceiling impasse without Congress, viewing the unilateral measures floated by some academics…
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An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could well advance two long-term conservative causes: the…
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A prominent conservative former federal judge joined a chorus of legal experts from across the political spectrum on Tuesday in calling on Congress to enact…
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EXCLUSIVE SCOTUS ETHICS TESTIMONY — This morning at 10 a.m. the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Supreme Court ethics reform. The witnesses…
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The latest stench in the Supreme Court
May 2, 2023
Clarence Thomas is in trouble. The Supreme Court as an institution is in trouble. At oral argument in the Mississippi abortion case in December 2021,…
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Anderson Cooper 360
May 1, 2023
Professor Laurence Tribe offers commentary on former Vice President Mike Pence testifying to a federal grand jury investigating the January 6th insurrection and former President…
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GOP uses state capitol protests to redefine ‘insurrection’
April 28, 2023
Silenced by her Republican colleagues, Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr looked up from the House floor to supporters in the gallery shouting “Let her speak!”…
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Disney sues Ron DeSantis over Florida district: ‘A targeted campaign of government retaliation’
April 27, 2023
Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the latest salvo in a long-running fight over the company’s self-governing powers in the…
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Five takeaways from the Supreme Court’s abortion pill ruling
April 24, 2023
An op-ed co-written by Laurence Tribe: Late Friday, the Supreme Court wisely left the abortion medication mifepristone fully available on the market, at least for…
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Senate Democrats are urging the Department of Justice to conduct an investigation into the expulsions of two Tennessee state representatives to determine whether their removal…
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‘Abortionists.’ ‘Unborn human.’ Legal experts blast ‘incendiary’ rhetoric of Texas ruling on abortion pill.
April 11, 2023
An unprecedented preliminary ruling by a federal judge in Texas invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone signals a new…