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Laurence H. Tribe

@tribelaw.bsky.social
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After teaching and writing about constitutional law for 50 yrs, it seemed time for me to reach beyond Harvard’s walls — to spread understanding and appreciation of the rule of law, of justice as fairness, and of a republic if we can keep it

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ezra Klein is right: RSI absolutely must be stopped before it’s too late. But here’s the question: how can we possibly ENFORCE a ban on AI’s recursively building improved AIs even if we and China agree on the terms of such a global ban — a very big “if” in itself? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/o...
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Opinion | This Is What I Fear Most About A.I.
Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“If the USPS were to implement its new Rule now, the effects on the 2026 election would be catastrophic. Many voters would be disenfranchised altogether, and many others would be denied their state-law right to vote by mail.” www.justsecurity.org/156963/usps-...
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What’s Conspicuously Missing from the Government’s Supreme Court Reply Brief in the Mail Ballots Case
Marty Lederman on the Solicitor General's reply brief in the USPS mail-in ballot case before the Supreme Court.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m staggered to learn that 100 million Americans have been born since the Twin Towers were brought down on 9/11 a quarter century ago. It’s fitting that Donald Trump was away while the 4 living former presidents — Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden — stool solemnly by, near Ground Zero in Manhattan.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Judge Luttig has again performed a great service to the U.S. Constitution and our republic by exposing the treachery the Trumpsters have planned for 1/3/27, the new 1/6/21, and wisely outlining what must be done to stop the evil coup in its tracks. judgeluttig327269.substack.com/p/january-3-...
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January 3, 2027 - The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
House Republicans are poised to claim that the midterm elections were stolen from them when they meet on January 3 to decide which Members-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’m strongly recommending bestselling novelist Ric Patterson’s new nonfiction work, “Tripwires.” It’s a terrific read and a great overview of how we came to this time of crisis — and how we can avert irreversible catastrophe. — Laurence Tribe. Hint: Buy it now! thenewpress.org/books/tripwi...
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Tripwires - The New Press
In a trenchant work of nonfiction, the #1 New York Times bestselling author identifies a series of self-inflicted wounds on our body politic that have led to the current moment, and shows us how we ca...
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Chaos always contains order: www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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How the ‘happy ending problem’ launched a new branch of math—and a romance
A puzzle about dots on a page led to one of the most profound areas of modern math
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Freedom Rising
Lovable Generated Project
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Read this splendid essay by Emily Eakin, the brilliant author of the forthcoming book, “The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/b...
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From A.I. to the Deep State, Michel Foucault Foresaw It All
One hundred years after his birth, the French philosopher remains hugely influential, both revered and reviled for ideas that eerily anticipated our day.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My take on the birthright citizenship decision www.ms.now/the-last-wor...
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Tribe: SCOTUS ruling shows ‘we’re a heartbeat away from repealing' core of 14th Amendment
Laurence Tribe joins MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling rejecting Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, adding that none of the justices should have had ...
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@stevevladeck.bsky.social Is “hypothetical jurisdiction” as in Alito’s Mullin v Doe Part III-A all that off-the-wall in light of Marshall’s opinion in Marbury v Madison itself?
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Happy Juneteenth. What an awesome event at the Obama Center yesterday! It’s great that both Obamas’ absolutely magnificent speeches were covered live. And the music was . . . well, to live for. (Let’s retire that dumb “to die for” meme.)
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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Warning: Trump's Rolling Coup Is Already Underway
And what must be done to stop it
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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Warning: Trump's Rolling Coup Is Already Underway
And what must be done to stop it
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I couldn’t put The Theater down. James Verini has written the first great narrative account of the most important war of our time. And he is donating all his proceeds directly to medical aid for Ukrainians. Pre-order now. Sales link: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Th...
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The Theater
In the tradition of John Hersey’s Hiroshima, a terse and piercing look at a critical episode in the Ukraine War, from the award-winning author of T...
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
With Congress in the hands of a prostrate Republican majority, there the opposition can do little to strike back at the president’s corruption. But this may not be true for much longer, and when the time comes, Democrats should work to take back his ill-gotten gains: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...
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Opinion | Trump Holds the American People in Total Contempt
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
“The Fix” is an important new book by a brilliant former US attorney, now a leading U of Michigan law professor and TV commentator. I recommend pre-ordering it now! bsky.app/profile/barb...
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
No justice could deny that Trump’s EO violates the 1952 Act of Congress conferring citizenship on exactly the same children born in the US whose citizenship the EO tries to erase. A 9-0 decision so holding would leave Congress free to try Trump’s move if it was as racist as he is.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Laurence Tribe: We need to preserve and protect the Constitution, not 'trash it' like Trump does
During oral arguments on birthright citizenship, Chief Justice John Roberts underscored a key point, saying, "It's a new world, but it's the same Constitution." Harvard Constitutional Law Professor La...
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Iran 🇮🇷 is not Venezuela 🇻🇪 Who knew? 🤪
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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Sign the Petition
Don’t Let Ego Redefine America’s Monuments
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This move against state bars is of a piece with the administration’s broader strategy against universities, the media and law firms — any organization capable of challenging the president’s power. And few things threaten it more than holding it to the the truth. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...
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Opinion | The Trump Administration Floats a New Way to Humiliate the Legal Profession
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Here’s “how the most powerful technologies of the twenty-first century are being folded into the machinery of violence.” dispatch.the-citizens.com/is-this-the-...
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Is this the first AI war?
Artificial intelligence isn't just helping you figure out what to make for dinner. It's deciding who lives and who dies.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Here’s “how the most powerful technologies of the twenty-first century are being folded into the machinery of violence.” dispatch.the-citizens.com/is-this-the-...
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Is this the first AI war?
Artificial intelligence isn't just helping you figure out what to make for dinner. It's deciding who lives and who dies.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Here’s “how the most powerful technologies of the twenty-first century are being folded into the machinery of violence.” dispatch.the-citizens.com/is-this-the-...
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Is this the first AI war?
Artificial intelligence isn't just helping you figure out what to make for dinner. It's deciding who lives and who dies.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“Giving in to bullies has its own costs, not least because bullies are never satisfied with just a single capitulation. Especially when, as with the law firms, the bully — that is, the Trump administration — was obviously playing a weak legal hand from the start.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...
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Opinion | Trump Has Elite Law Firms on a Punishing Merry-Go-Round
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Jenna Griswold played a key role in arguing for Trump’s 14th Am Sec 3 disqualification from the presidency after he was found guilty in a state court of insurrection agnst the Constitution. That she wasn’t the oral advocate is obviously irrelevant. Accusing her of misleading anyone is indefensible.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
“In just over a year since taking office, Mr. Trump has authorized military action in seven nations, even after he repeatedly promised American voters that he would end, not start, wars.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
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In Plunging Into a Mideast Conflict, Trump Gambles His Presidency
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Nobel Peace Prize, my ass
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Trump’s Unilateral Attack on Iran Paves Way for Broader Dispute Over War Powers www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
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Trump’s Unilateral Attack on Iran Paves Way for Broader Dispute Over War Powers
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“The presumption created by the surrounding evidence is that this war could very well be about (1) subverting US democracy, (2) enriching the president, or both. These presumptions, while not proof, provide solid lines of inquiry as we learn more about the war.” snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...
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Why Attack Iran?
Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Price of Mercy is a searing, compassionate, and utterly necessary book. Its insights are brilliant, its proposals pragmatic, and its potential impact on crime and punishment profound. It’s a must read.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Are Americans’ civil rights on thin ICE? - Harvard Law School
Harvard Law Professors Nikolas Bowie and Laurence Tribe discuss upholding such rights amid the ongoing federal immigration crackdown.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“The Little Red Dots may be a totally new class of cosmic object. The latest theories suggest they could be something called quasi-stars or black hole stars, a concept originally predicted 20 years ago.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
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Weird ‘Little Red Dots’ in space are something we’ve never seen
Astronomers are racing to understand mysterious ancient objects that pepper James Webb Space Telescope images
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
“Trump is not a hypothetical. . . He is a uniquely authoritarian, vindictive, racist, corrupt and lawless demagogue — of which there isn’t remotely an analog on the other side of the aisle.” www.ms.now/opinion/libe...
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Opinion | Libertarians warned about executive power. Only a few actually warned about Trump.
Anthony L. Fisher: A recent New York Times op-ed showed the blind spot many libertarians still have for President Donald Trump.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“Before Mr.Trump’s second term, it had been exceedingly rare for grand jurors to rebuff requests by prosecutors seeking indictments. It is now happening with increased frequency, as MrTrump’s appointees push ahead with questionable cases in an effort to appease him.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
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Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The 12-axis graph is the best I’ve seen for tracking our descent from democracy to autocracy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...htt
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Opinion | ICE and Minnesota Have Pushed the U.S. Closer to Autocracy
Measuring America’s slide toward democratic erosion.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“Neither the Bivens Act nor the Universal Constitutional Remedies Act is a magic bullet that will save American democracy, but they would provide greater levels of deterrence and accountability” A Law That Might Just Save the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...
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Opinion | A Law That Might Just Save the Midterms
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
“After a Springfield pogrom, JD Vance will have his first namesake policy. “JD Genocide,” or perhaps “Genocide Vance” -- if all this happens, the sobriquets will write themselves.” This prophecy must be prevented from becoming a reality. If it isn’t, God help us. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
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Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
In the U.S., “a mirror world has begun to form with the unleashing of multiple federal police forces that have already killed at least 3 citizens and many immigrants. They protect the bottom line of transnational corporations that surveil and jail us for profit.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
People who begin by shooting animals they find unpleasant or not worthy of living often turn out to be serial killers. Remember that when you think about Kristi Noem.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Activists are calling for a “nationwide day of no school, no work and no shopping” across the U.S. on Friday, Jan. 30, to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown following the fatal shootings of two people by federal agents in Minneapolis.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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springsteen on Instagram: "I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on …"
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.Stay free, Bruce SpringsteenView all 3,146 comments
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“I just checked—it turns out that Art. II, Sec. 1 of the Constitution of the United States does *not* say ‘The executive Power shall be vested in a bunch of sociopaths who think they can do whatever the f*ck they want and make sh*t up as they go along.’” — George Conway
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come. This is one of them. If we give our freedoms away after 250 years, we might never get them back.” — President Bill Clinton, 1/25/26
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law.” — that was Donald Trump’s solemn commitment a year ago today, in his Inaugural Address. He has broken every part of that promise.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“Expanding candidate standing while continuing to restrict legislative standing appears to be yet another data point for the current Court’s inclination to limit legislative power especially when it’s being invoked in an attempt to rein in the executive branch.” open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
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203. Legislative Standing and/After Bost
The theory on which five justices concluded that candidates for office have standing to challenge election rules is difficult—at best—to reconcile with the Court's hostility to legislative standing.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
“One year into his second term, America risks losing a central feature of our democracy: that we are a country ruled by laws, not by one man.” That endangers every one of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/o...
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Opinion | For Trump, Justice Means Vengeance
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Renee Good’s last words were to ICE agent Jonathan Ross: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.” Then Ross shot Renee three times in the face. As she was dying, his last words to her were: “Fucking bitch.” And JD Vance thought that exchange exonerated ICE. That says it all.
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