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Judge J. Michael Luttig (@judgeluttig327269)
This piece by the wonderful Joyce Vance is very important. I was Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in 1990-1991. The Presidential Records Act is not even arguably unconstitutional. The opinion to the contrary by the current Assistant Attorney General is a joke. There’s not a chance in the world that Judge Howell will uphold this opinion.
https://substack.com/@judgeluttig327269/note/c-240673757?r=lnjnn&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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The Beginning of The End of Donald Trump’s Presidency
The Honorable Jerome Powell: Profile in Courage, Patriot, American Hero
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Jena Griswold is running for Attorney General of the State of Colorado and one of her Democratic primary opponents is running television attack ads saying that she was somehow being dishonest when she said that she “argued” the seminal 14th Amendment disqualification case before the Supreme Court.
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A Non-Partisan (and Bi-Partisan) Primer for Americans on the War Power
Former United States Court of Appeals Judge (1991-2006
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NEW YORK CITY BAR CONDEMNS TRUMP'S VICIOUS ATTACK ON SUPREME COURT
NYCB calls on all members of the legal profession to defend the independence of the judiciary by speaking up against brazen attempts to intimidate and delegitimize a coequal branch of government
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/new-york-city-bar-condemns-trumps?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
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America's Time of Testing Has Come
If we but find the courage to speak truth to power now, today, as did the Founders and our ancestors when their time of testing came, the United States of America will endure forever.
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/americas-time-of-testing-has-come?r=lnjnn&utm_medium=ios
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The New York Times’ David Brooks Departs — With the Answer for All of Us
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Opinion | Time to Say Goodbye
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/opinion/david-brooks-leaving-columnist.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IVA.q8-H.aheLnMS7antA&smid=url-share
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Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Emeritus Laurence H. Tribe replies that rather than discard the Constitution, we should “cling to it as both sword and shield in this time of existential crisis for our republic.”
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Is the United States in Need of A New Constitution?
Has the Constitution, ratified in 1789, endured as intended by the Framers of the Constitution for these almost 250 years or is it too outdated and incapable of amendment to serve any longer as the bl...
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/is-the-united-states-in-need-of-a?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
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New York Times: Leadership Dispute Said to Spur Abrupt Exit at the National Constitution Center
The congressionally chartered museum and national town hall has not explained the sudden departure of Jeffrey Rosen as its president and chief executive
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/new-york-times-leadership-dispute?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Ivanka Trump Recommends Jeffrey Rosen’s Book “The Pursuit of Happiness”
As America approaches its 250th Anniversary on July 4, 2026, "The Pursuit of Happiness" is one of the books “that ‘shaped’ Ms. Trump, from top novels to ancient wisdom"
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/ivanka-trump-recommends-jeffrey-rosens?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
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Announcement from the National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Rosen, the NCC's President & CEO for the past 12 years, becomes CEO Emeritus of the NCC and Board Appoints Vince Stango as Interim President and CEO of the National Constitution Center
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/announcement-from-the-national-constitution?r=lnjnn&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Independence Day, July 4, 2026
The day that Americans again pledge to each other their Lives, their Fortunes and their sacred Honor and dedicate themselves to the great task remaining before them
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/independence-day-july-4-2026?r=lnjnn&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Meanwhile . . .
In the real world, where the rest of us citizens of the United States of America live — presumably protected by the Constitution of the United States -- this . . .
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“By Killing Renee Good, Ice Sent A Message to Us All,” by Michelle Goldberg of The New York Times
"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/by-killing-renee-good-ice-sent-a?r=lnjnn&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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A moral reawakening in America is the answer and the only answer. In politics lies only hopelessness. Thank you my friend, Ian Bassin, and Reverend Raushenbush.
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We Need a New Great Awakening
This dire moment in our nation’s moral life cries out for a renewal of hearts.
https://substack.com/@ianbassin/note/p-182057787?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=lnjnn
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The answer to WSJ Editorial Writer James Freeman’s Rhetorical Question “What Would America Do Without Leftist Legal Pundits Parading As Legal Experts”
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The Answer to WSJ Editorial Writer James Freeman's Rhetorical Question "What Would America Do Without Leftist Legal Pundits Parading As Legal Experts"
Yesterday, with dripping contempt for the country’s “liberal” legal experts, James Freeman of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board presumptuously purported to ask on behalf of all Americans, “What ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/the-answer-to-wsj-editorial-writer?r=lnjnn&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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The United States of Donald Trump
Donald Trump is slapping his name and face on everything he can, but America’s institutions don’t belong to him.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2025/12/donald-trump-naming-american-institutions/685362/?utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20251219&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&lctg=62c2e9bbe8bd04843200c975&utm_term=The%20Atlantic%20Daily
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David Graham of The Atlantic, from his article posted last night titled “The United States of Donald Trump” and subtitled “Donald Trump is slapping his name and face on everything he can, but America’s institutions don’t belong to him.”
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The New York Times' David French on Character, Courage, Righteousness, Truth & Kindness
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David French on Character, Courage, Righteousness, Truth, and Kindness
"There must be light to answer the darkness, or the darkness will devour us all."
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/david-french-on-character-courage?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Please read this piece by the National Review’s Jim Geraghty, if you never read anything else.
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Trump’s Appalling Reiner Reaction Is a Sign of Something Deeply Wrong | National Review
Yes, we must talk about what President Trump posted on Truth Social about the brutal murders of the Reiners.
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/trumps-appalling-reiner-reaction-is-a-sign-of-something-deeply-wrong/
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We must never believe what we are being told. We must not believe these charlatans who would deceive us for their cynical political, immoral, and godless purposes.
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Trump & Bondi versus the Rule of Law: This is why we Americans live in fear today The Honorable Thomas Cullen, the judge from the Federal District Court in Virginia who was brought in to decide Donald Trump’s and Pam Bondi’s corrupt and unprecedented lawsuit against the Federal Court in Maryland,
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This should be where the end begins. Let’s pray it is. Governor Ferguson, America salutes you.
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My Substack post on Donald Trump’s attack on Nicolle Wallace. “I don’t have a doubt in the world that Nicolle Wallace is the one journalist in America today who Donald Trump fears most — and for good reason.
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Thomas Friedman, New York Times August 4, 2025, “The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away” “That is why, dear reader . . .
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New York Times v. Sullivan: A Dead Letter
America's Media Will Have No One to Blame But Itself
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Where Is the Supreme Court of the United States?
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Where Is the Supreme Court of the United States?
The Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, has now filed an official complaint against Federal District Court Judge James Boasberg with the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals...
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/where-is-the-supreme-court-of-the?r=lnjnn&utm_medium=ios
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The People’s Right to a Free Press Shall Not Be Abridged
Everything America has stood for and that Americans have believed in for almost two hundred and fifty years is under attack today by the President of the United States and his Administration, with the...
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/the-peoples-right-to-a-free-press?r=lnjnn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Never before in the Nation’s almost 250 year history has America’s present and future depended more on the free press than it does today.
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David French: “It’s hard to describe how thoroughly Trump is disrupting and corrupting our system of justice. . . . Donald Trump is determined to transform America’s system of justice into his personal political weapon.”
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Opinion | Trump’s Perversion of Justice Has Reached a New Phase
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/dillon-taylor-justice-trump.html
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I posted this piece today on Substack about the House Republican Oversight Committee’s bludgeoning of President Biden’s aides to compel their testimony.
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The Republican House Oversight Committee Bludgeons Biden’s Aides to Surrender Their Fifth Amendment Rights Against Government Tyranny and Compel Their Testimony
As surely as night follows day, it could have been expected that The White House would launch a pretextual “criminal investigation” into former President Biden’s cognitive abilities, in a fully transp...
https://open.substack.com/pub/judgeluttig327269/p/the-republican-house-oversight-committee?r=lnjnn&utm_medium=ios
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Adam Liptak of The New York Times this morning: “[The Supreme Court’s order] was an exercise of power, not reason.”
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I’m unaware of any other time when large numbers of judges (retired) publicly opposed a nominee for the federal bench. But this is what it is going to take.
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My friend Ryan Lizza posted this audio of “The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom — and of Tyranny” this morning.
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The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny
An audio version of Judge Luttig's special July 4 piece
https://www.telos.news/p/the-self-evident-truths-of-freedomand
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Thank you,
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The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny
Twenty-seven truths about America, our Democracy and Rule of Law, and our rights, freedoms, and liberties.
https://www.telos.news/p/luttig-the-self-evident-truths-of-freedom
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Thank you, Mr. Reich. Yes, the federal Judiciary is the last obstacle to absolute power in this president, which is why Donald Trump is viciously attacking the federal courts and even individual federal judges,
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David French in this morning’s New York Times: “If you try to intimidate a judge, you’re often confirming to the judge the necessity of her or his ruling. And some judges take acts of intimidation as a kind of personal insult. They don’t become afraid. They just get mad.
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From The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky, in his article yesterday, “The Only ‘Judicial Coup’ in This Country Is By Trump Against Judges.” “It’s funny. But it’s worth noting that Trump doesn’t always chicken out. Most of the time, he just loses.
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Judge Luttig on Substack
I joined Ryan Lizza on Telos this afternoon to discuss the week’s legal developments, including the Supreme Court’s shadow docket decision in Trump v. Wilcox on the president’s power to remove members...
https://substack.com/@judgeluttig327269/note/c-121594007?r=lnjnn
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The Memorial Day Message from the President of the United States of America, in memory of those who have given their lives defending America, the Constitution, and the freedoms that we Americans enjoy on this Memorial Day 2025.
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The Wall Street Journal had a piece last night that the Judicial Conference of the United States — the policy making body for the federal judiciary — is discussing whether the Judiciary should have its own armed security force rather than rely on the U.S. Marshals for federal judges’ protection.
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I am pleased to have this article, “The End of Rule of Law in America” in The Atlantic this morning. Thank you, Jeffrey Goldberg,
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I joined Ryan Lizza today on his new Substack podcast to discuss President Trump’s first one-hundred days and the Rule of Law in America.
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Donald Trump's 100 Days of Lawlessness
Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig says that ALL of Trump's signature initiatives are unlawful.
https://open.substack.com/pub/telos/p/donald-trumps-100-days-of-lawlessness?r=lnjnn&utm_medium=ios
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“On Monday, Luttig told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that Trump's comments ‘are perhaps the most important words ever spoken by a president of the United States.’ He added that the story is ‘one of the most important stories of our times.’”
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Trump uttered 'most important words ever spoken' by a president: conservative ex-judge
Conservative former Judge Michael Luttig pointed to the recent interview President Donald Trump did and called it possibly the "most important" statement made by a U.S. president. The comment was part...
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-constitution-2671894980/
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This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.
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I joined Ali Velshi of MSNBC this morning and Ali’s first question was about the President’s jarring answer “I don’t know” to the question “Don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?”
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So that all can read, I am gifting today’s NYT piece on the lawless presidency of the 45th President of the United States.
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Opinion | A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency (Gift Article)
A diverse group of legal scholars flashes red warning lights about the future of America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-constitution-rule-of-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DE8.ny--.dAoog7UH5fSC&smid=bs-share
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The words of the Attorney General of the United States of America on FOX News yesterday, after the FBI arrested Wisconsin state Judge Hannah Dugan and charged her with two federal felony offenses.
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This — the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s arrest today of a sitting judge — against the backdrop that the President of the United States is, at this same moment, defying an April 10 Order of the Supreme Court of the United States
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To read the Criminal Complaint and attached FBI Affidavit that gave rise to Wisconsin State Judge Hannah Dugan’s federal criminal arrest today for obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the United States and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest
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