Conservative former federal choose J. Michael Luttig, this weekend, tore into President Donald Trump and his administration for “waging war” on the federal judiciary and the rule of legislation.
The assault started on Trump’s very first day again in workplace, Luttig instructed MSNBC’s Ali Velshi.
And the authorized icon worryingly admitted: “I don’t know where this ends.”
Luttig, a staunch and vocal critic of Trump’s assaults on democracy, took explicit difficulty with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s accusation that judges who’ve dominated towards the president’s insurance policies and government orders are “deranged.”
“No, the judges are not deranged, Pam Bondi,” stated Luttig.
“They are simply enforcing their oath to the Constitution of the United States. The same oath that you, Madam Attorney General, took yourself,” he identified.
“I don’t know where this ends, Ali, but it appears that, in this moment, the president intends to prosecute this war against the federal judiciary and the rule of law to its catastrophic end.”
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Earlier this month, Luttig argued Trump’s declare of not figuring out if he has to uphold the U.S. Constitution was “maybe crucial phrases ever spoken by a president of the United States.”
“The temptation here is to dismiss the president’s words as just another gaffe, of which he makes many. But I don’t think that we should do that,” he stated.
“I’m quite confident that the president was saying what is on his mind and that is that he, the president of the United States, doesn’t necessarily believe that he is obligated to uphold the Constitution of the United States, as it is interpreted by the Supreme Court,” added Luttig, who suggested Trump first-term Vice President Mike Pence on rejecting Trump’s bid to overturn his 2020 election loss.
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