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Laurence Tribe
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As the Supreme Court wraps up another blockbuster term, Harvard Law School faculty members reflect on the ways the justices’ most recent decisions might reshape the law.
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The Trump Decision Reveals Deep Rot in the System
July 2, 2024
An article by Laurence Tribe: On Monday the Supreme Court dispensed with the rule of law by effectively depriving the American people of crucial information…
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MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell speaks to Harvard Law School Constitutional Law Professor Laurence Tribe about the Supreme Court decision granting Donald Trump immunity for official acts…
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Today the Supreme Court ruled that presidents are entitled to absolute immunity for official acts while in office. Former president Trump is calling that a…
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‘A moment of existential significance’: Luttig and Tribe discuss stakes of Trump’s immunity decision
July 1, 2024
With the Supreme Court set to issue a ruling on Donald Trump’s presidential claim tomorrow, Laurence Tribe and Judge Luttig join Ali Velshi to discuss…
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“To modern eyes, 19th-century wars protected commerce and finance to a degree that is almost unbelievably generous,” the Cornell historian Nicholas Mulder wrote in his…
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An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: On Thursday the Supreme Court majority used a cynical sleight of hand to deliver what seems on the surface,…
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“Intentional”: Harvard legal scholar says SCOTUS “deliberately delayed” Trump immunity ruling
June 24, 2024
The Supreme Court’s delay in deciding Donald Trump’s immunity case makes a trial before election highly unlikely, legal experts say. Special counsel Jack Smith, who…
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As Donald Trump emerged as a convicted felon from a New York court, he claimed the trial had politically targeted him, that the judge was…
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Many prominent Republicans have been quick to echo former president Donald Trump in criticizing the prosecution, the venue and his conviction on 34 counts related…
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In 1969, Mrs. Lawrence Hubner, a 26-year-old mother of two and a winner of an American Legion good citizenship award as a high school student,…
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One wonders what more Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. need do to defile the court’s reputation before Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick…
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Erin Burnett Out Front
May 24, 2024
Professor Laurence Tribe offers commentary on the ongoing debate over how to think about the display of opinion at the Alito home and more.
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FED UP Laurence Tribe DROPS THE HAMMER on ALITO
May 23, 2024
It’s a Supreme Crisis: Harvard constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe joins Jessica Denson with some choice words about the insurrectionist-sympathizing upside-down flag hung by Justice Samuel…
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Ethics experts and lawyers (including former judges) of all stripes expressed their outrage. “His statement — which says his wife displayed a symbol associated with…
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Recent battlefield reverses in Ukraine, with Kherson under increasing attack, are powerful reminders that Ukraine needs every penny of support it can get urgently. Yet…
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Erin Burnett Out Front: May 15
May 20, 2024
Professor Laurence Tribe offers commentary on Justice Alito’s support of the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement and more.
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In short, both conduct and speech may be prosecuted if material support is “coordinated with or under the direction of a designated foreign terrorist organization.”…
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“As he sees fit”: Trump lays out the stakes — and the media is starting to hear his message
May 3, 2024
An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: The election stakes are as stark as they’re simple: Law and order to ensure freedom versus lawlessness and disorder…
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Laurence Tribe: The Trump immunity case will ‘hurt the Supreme Court even more than Bush v. Gore’
April 29, 2024
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker is back on the stand in Manhattan. This comes after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on former President…
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Laurence Tribe joins MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss his reaction to the Supreme Court’s arguments on Donald Trump’s claim of presidential immunity and the “shameful…