Conservative former federal judge says Trump has 'declared war' on US rule of law
Source: The Guardian
J Michael Luttig said a constitutional crisis is brewing due to Trump's defiance of a court order over deportations
Donald Trump has "declared war on the rule of law in America" and is pitching the country into a constitutional crisis, a prominent former conservative federal judge said.
"The president of the United States has essentially declared war on the rule of law in America," J Michael Luttig told MSNBC. "In the past few weeks ... the president himself has led a full-frontal assault on the constitution, the rule of law, the federal judiciary, the American justice system and the nation's legal profession.
"When the president of the United States wages a war on the rule of law and the federal judiciary alley, America is in a constitutional crisis. The constitutional role of the president is to faithfully execute the laws. Needless to say, the president is doing anything but that at the moment. Most constitutional scholars have long agreed that a constitutional crisis exists at least when the president defies a court order. That's essentially what the president is doing today and what it appears he intends to do in the future."
On Tuesday, Trump called for the impeachment and removal of James Boasberg, the chief US district judge in Washington DC.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-court-order-immigration-constitutional-crisis
Now retired, Luttig stands among the most conservative judges in the entire federal judiciary. Hearing him say this should wake up a whole lot of GOP judges -- going back to Nixon and Reagan's time -- about the true nature of Trump the Treasonous.
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