Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe hit out at Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Twitter after the GOP Senate Majority Leader revealed he would seek to fill any Supreme Court vacancy in 2020, the HuffPost reports.
Said Tribe: “Hypocrisy is McTurtle’s middle name. And his first and last name too. What a flagrant dickhead!”
“Despite Sen. Cruz’s repeated statements that the legal/constitutional issues around whether he’s a natural-born citizen are clear and settled, the truth is that they’re murky and unsettled.”
— Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, quoted by The Guardian, on whether the Texas senator is a natural born citizen.
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