Conservative former federal judge J. Michael Luttig this weekend tore into President Donald Trump and his administration for “waging war” on the federal judiciary and rule of law.
The assault began on Trump’s very first day back in office, Luttig told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi.
And the legal icon worryingly admitted: “I don’t know where this ends.”
Luttig, a staunch and vocal critic of Trump’s attacks on democracy, took particular issue with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s accusation that judges who have ruled against the president’s policies and executive orders are “deranged.”
“No, the judges are not deranged, Pam Bondi,” said 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 pointed out.
Then Luttig confessed:
“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 claim of not knowing if he has to uphold the U.S. Constitution was “perhaps the most important words 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 said.
“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 advised Trump first-term Vice President Mike Pence on rejecting Trump’s bid to overturn his 2020 election loss.
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