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.

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.

"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/
This is an incredibly powerful indictment of Trump, the GOP and an incredible endorsement.
https://www.macwebguru.com/2024/08/31/luttig-endorses-harris/
"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.
"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
Latest on Judge #Luttig. He endorsed #Harris.
Read his endorsement.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25050952-luttig-endorsement
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
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
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
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.