Conservative Legal Icon Offers Sobering Admission On If Trump Defies Court Order | EUROtoday

Conservative former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig on Tuesday warned about what he described as President Donald Trump’s “war on the rule of law in America” and the unprecedented penalties for the nation ought to Trump defy a federal court docket order or federal decide.

Asked by MSNBC’s Ali Velshi what is going to occur if Trump truly defies such an order, Luttig admitted: “We don’t know what happens.”

The nation “will be in a constitutional crisis” as no president of the United States has flagrantly accomplished so earlier than, he famous.

“The courts are considered the least powerful branch because they control neither the purse nor the sword and they have no effective means to enforce their orders other than by judgments of contempt that theoretically, but theoretically only, can be enforced by the marshals of the court,” Luttig defined.

“So, as a practical matter, if the president of the United States defies even a Supreme Court order, there is nothing that the Supreme Court itself could do,” he added. “And this has been a very tempting thing for this president ever since his first term, as we all know.”

Trump’s current actions are a “full frontal assault on the Constitution, the rule of law, the federal judiciary, the American justice system and the nation’s legal profession,” he mentioned. “When the president of the United States wages a war on the rule of law and the federal judiciary, Ali, America is in a constitutional crisis.”