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Laurence Tribe
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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…
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An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: In recent weeks, the American public has been privy to the startling private communications of high-level executives and media…
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On Thursday night, Republican lawmakers in the Tennessee state House of Representatives expelled two of three Democratic legislators who engaged in a peaceful protest on…
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So you’ve been defamed by a chatbot
April 7, 2023
Add defamation to the long list of legal areas that are on a collision course with AI. Yesterday, the mayor of an Australian shire northwest…
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One day after he was arrested and arraigned on 34 counts of falsifying business records, Donald Trump is calling for Republicans to “defund” the FBI…
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President Warren G. Harding was in danger of facing criminal charges in 1921 in the Teapot Dome bribery scandal, but he died in office first.
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Fox, Dominion Readies for High Stakes Legal Battle
March 31, 2023
“This is as strong a case as I have seen in fifty years of studying constitutional law and the First Amendment, as strong a case…
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An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: Former President Donald Trump once promised that, under him, his supporters would “get tired of winning.” He must not…
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Support Grows to Have Russia Pay for Ukraine’s Rebuilding
March 27, 2023
When the World Bank released its latest damage assessment of war-torn Ukraine this week, it announced that the price of recovery and rebuilding had grown…
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A loss for Fox would be a win for the First Amendment
March 23, 2023
If a television network could cry crocodile tears, that would be Fox News wailing that the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit it faces for spreading lies…
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Professor Laurence Tribe joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the “bizarre” filing by Trump’s lawyers in Georgia seeking to suppress evidence in the grand jury’s…
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An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: On Friday, Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered Evan Corcoran, one…
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Judge Howell delivers another blow to Trump and his lawyer
March 21, 2023
Media and political attention has been focused on an allegedly impending indictment of former president Donald Trump in New York for allegedly mischaracterizing on campaign…
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Donald Trump claims he will be arrested Tuesday in Manhattan probe, calls for protests
March 20, 2023
Former President Donald Trump said he expects to be arrested Tuesday in connection with a Manhattan district attorney investigation and called on his supporters to…
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ChatGPT Libeled Me. Can I Sue?
March 17, 2023
ChatGPT is impressive at parsing and generating English sentences, but it has a problem with facts. If you’re a public figure of moderate renown, that…
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An op-ed co-written by Laurence Tribe: On Friday, District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who is among the most reactionary of former President Donald Trump’s appointees, signaled…