J. Michael #Luttig says that voting is necessary, but not sufficient to secure our liberty. He says it will be necessary to get out on the streets. Things are serious when this thoughtful man recommends collective action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHrMrJqs8Og

Judge Luttig: We must take back our country from Trump's 'war on the rule of law'

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"As the former federal judge J. Michael #Luttig, a well-known #conservative jurist, said recently, #Trump has “launched a full-frontal assault on the #Constitution, the rule of #law, our system of #justice, and the entire legal profession.”

Trump has made great progress in this offensive in only a matter of weeks. Day by day, he has shown Americans what unraveling the rule of law actually looks like"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/judiciarys-last-stand/682149/

#DonaldTrump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA

The Judiciary's Last Stand

Trump’s campaign against the rule of law has ratcheted up dramatically.

The Atlantic

This is an incredibly powerful indictment of Trump, the GOP and an incredible endorsement.

https://www.macwebguru.com/2024/08/31/luttig-endorses-harris/

#trump #harris #luttig #endorsement

M. Douglas Wray: Luttig Endorsement of Kamala Harris

Conservative icon Judge J. Michael Luttig's five-page letter endorsing Democratic candidate Kamala Harris for President. Also a video interview of Luttig.

M. Douglas Wray | Mac Web Guru

"This presidential election is a test of Americans’ commitment to America’s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law. It is so because the former president and the Republican Party have shamefully made it so." - J. Michael Luttig in his five page endorsement of Kamala Harris.

#tfg #luttig #harris #knockout

@wdlindsy

"A simple matter of knowing right from wrong," says #Luttig. It's not a a matter of right and left.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/21/conservative-judge-harris-endorsement

Why did this conservative US judge endorse Kamala Harris?

What matters to Michael Luttig is getting past January 2025 with democracy intact. We can argue later about how to govern

The Guardian
DocumentCloud

@wdlindsy

Lifelong Republican J. Michael #Luttig endorses Kamala #Harris with workds that start this way, "Almost four years ago now, on January 6, 2021, a stake was driven through the heart of America’s Democracy."

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25050952-luttig-endorsement

DocumentCloud

since #Luttig is in the news it’s good to revisit this story of how pre-Musk Twitter served a pivotal role in stopping the 2020 coup

a funny detail I just learned is that while the Vice President of the US was desperately looking for a printed legal analysis to counter Trump’s scheme, and Judge Luttig was struggling to post said analysis on Twitter, Luttig’s son basically told him to RTFM instead of coaching him on how to chain tweets

#democracy #techsupport #coup

https://ktvz.com/politics/cnn-us-politics/2022/02/20/anatomy-of-a-tweet-the-behind-the-scenes-story-of-how-retired-federal-judge-michael-luttig-used-twitter-to-try-to-stop-an-insurrection/

Anatomy of a tweet: The behind-the-scenes story of how retired federal judge Michael Luttig used Twitter to try to stop an insurrection - KTVZ

By Jamie Gangel and Jeremy Herb, CNN Retired federal judge Michael Luttig never expected to jump into the heated fight over the certification of the 2020 presidential election. And he certainly never imagined he would end up using Twitter to help former Vice President Mike Pence defy then-President Donald Trump. But on the night of

KTVZ

American Bar Association creates rapid response teams ahead of Election Day

The American Bar Association met last week in Chicago,

and some of its members want lawyers to be ready for this fall's election.

One of them is Jeh #Johnson, a former Secretary of Homeland Security under President Obama.

Another is J. Michael #Luttig, a former appeals court judge appointed by a Republican president.

They are both part of a bipartisan task force.

Judge Luttig warns that ♦️some in the Republican Party hope to overturn the election results as they tried after 2020.♦️

J MICHAEL LUTTIG: There are legions of lawyers and others who are preparing to challenge this election if, in their view, they need to.

Luttig and Johnson say that's why the ABA is creating #rapid #response #teams of lawyers
ready to move in when asked for legal help both before and after election day.

https://www.keranews.org/2024-08-12/american-bar-association-creates-rapid-response-teams-ahead-of-election-day

American Bar Association creates rapid response teams ahead of Election Day

The American Bar Association is setting up rapid-response teams of legal experts ahead of the presidential election. It's part of a broad effort to defend democratic institutions.

KERA
Why the #FailedRobertsCourt is illegitimate and unconstitutional. #Katyal and #Luttig on the unconstitutional immunity ruling by the #CorruptSupremeCourt making the president a Monarch and will be overturned. https://is.gd/ua8zat #Politics