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Sitting U.S. Senator @SenTedCruz owes the Coca-Cola Company, and Chairman and CEO James Quincey, a public apology for, and a retraction of, his corrupt pledge on his behalf
and purportedly on behalf of all of his Republican colleagues, that they will get political revenge against Coca-Cola for Mr. Quincey's entirely legitimate and innocuous comments opposing selected provisions of Georgia's new voting legislation,
by influencing the pending litigation between Coca-Cola and the IRS.
Myself and preeminent Harvard Law Professor Laurence H. Tribe have advised the Coca-Cola Company that the IRS's attempt to retroactively tax Coca-Cola billions of dollars in additional taxes for tax years over a decade ago,
based on a different formula from that the IRS agreed Coca-Cola would use, and for compliance with which the IRS audited the company for over a decade and a half, constitutes a classic unconstitutional bait-and -switch.
If @SenTedCruz is a man of honor, as he professes to be, let alone a politician who has further ambitions in public life, he will hold a press conference this day and apology, so reprehensible is his official misconduct.
It is @SenTedCruz who recklessly accused America's CEOs of "mouthing off" when they "had no idea what they were talking about," when of course it was actually @SenTedCruz who shot off his mouth without having any idea whatsoever what he was talking about.
The Senator from Texas has invited a more comprehensive response to his ill-considered op-ed, and I accept his invitation.
