Laurence Tribe: We Have an ‘Impending Police State’ Under Trump

Breitbart ^ | 04/16/2025 | Pam Key

[ChicagoConservative27]

Left-wing commentator and Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe claimed Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that President Donald Trump’s administration was causing “an impending police state.”

Tribe said, “I been in school for 50 years studying the constitution, teaching about it. It doesn’t enforce itself. It takes human beings of character to take it seriously. And when for whatever combination of cultural and social reasons, the nation selects someone who clearly has no respect for the constitution, someone who is cruel, someone who is without moral principle this is what we see. We see a tinhorn dictator interacting with a wannabe dictator in the United States, in the Oval Office, seeing whether one of them can outdo the other in mocking the U.S. Supreme Court, clearly defying its mandate that we make a reasonable effort to facilitate the return of a human being.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

What a uppity POS he is

[FlingWingFlyer]

A Hahvid boy. POS.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

“I been in school for 50 years..."

Yup 'n I lerned speling 'n stuf too!

[FlipWilson]

No Larry boy, we have an actual police state when your team is in charge. Even worse, we have a police state that tries to perpetuate itself through naked voter fraud. On top of that, when your team is out of power, we have a police state of unelected Judges who believe that they rule the Country.

Police state?!? Yah, sure.

[SaveFerris]

LOL 🤣🤣🤣😆

[Vaduz]

Clearly has no respect for the constitution.

Harvard Law professor

[ComputerGuy]

I been in school for 50 years studying the constitution, teaching about it

And you still don't get it, do you?

[PortugeeJoe]

Overeducated partisan moron...

[Frank Drebin]

Yes, yes, yes...Hitler...Nazis...constiutional crisis...threat to your democracy, yada, yada, yada. You guys need a new talking point writer, Laurence.

[Dan in Wichita]

Deceitful, incendiary rhetoric like this is what drives some on the left to commit acts of violence, including murder. It gets worse every day.

[JBW1949]

Was he referring to Barack Obama???

If so, he hit the nail on the head....

[Lockbox]

Well, I’ll take Trump as a dictator over the deep state conspiracy to remove a duly elected president any day of the week. If we are using the “ends justify the means” excuse, well that swings both ways…. 🤣🤣🤣

[Gay State Conservative]

Poor Larry! He waited all those years for a seat on the Supreme Court and it never came. And add to that the fact that he's been totally eclipsed by Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley.

And today we see him on MSLSD.

[laweeks]

Haven’t heard that jackasses name for a long time

[PAR35]

Well, he’s better off than most. He can return to the country of his birth (China), the country of his father’s birth (Poland), or exercise his right of return to Israel.

[bantam]

Lawrence has his panties in a wad!

[Dr. Franklin]

Well, he’s better off than most. He can return to the country of his birth (China), the country of his father’s birth (Poland), or exercise his right of return to Israel.

So Laurence has a tribe. Do we know which of the twelve?

[broken_clock]

FULT

[frank ballenger]

A police would be hostile agents invading Mar-a-Lago and tossing memorabilia and underwear out of drawers and stepping over them in a bedroom and having police vehicle lights flashing as seen from helicopters overhead to smear the reputation of the Dems’ political opponent.

And have news media slander him and lawfare bring him to court on days of testimony so he couldn’t campaign normally.
And then smear him as a “convicted felon on 34 charges” to try to ruin his chances.

I
want
revenge.

[Alas Babylon!]

...And when for whatever combination of cultural and social reasons, the nation selects someone who clearly has no respect for the constitution, someone who is cruel, someone who is without moral principle this is what we see.

Is this a "law professor" opinion based on legal learning, or an unhinged leftist rant?