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Showing Original Post only (View all)Judge Luttig: "The Nation is witnessing the determined delegitimization of both its Federal and State judiciaries..." [View all]
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The Nation is witnessing the determined delegitimization of both its Federal and State judiciaries and the systematic dismantling of its system of justice and Rule of Law by a single man the former President of the United States.
In the months ahead, the former president can only be expected to ramp up his unprecedented efforts to delegitimize the courts of the United States, the nations state courts, and Americas system of justice, through his vicious, disgraceful, and unforgiveable attacks and threats on the Federal and State Judiciaries and the individual Judges of these courts.
Never in American history has any person, let alone a President of the United States, leveled such threatening attacks against the federal and state courts and federal and state judicial officers of the kind the former president has leveled continually now for years.
But suffice it to say, never in history has any person leveled such attacks and been met with such passivity, acquiescence, and submissiveness by the nation.
It is a regrettable commentary on our times that a lone federal judge, The Honorable Judge Reggie B. Walton -- because no one whose responsibility it is to do so has had the courage and the will -- would finally be left no choice but, himself, to express on national television the profound concerns of the entire Federal and State Judiciaries over Donald Trumps contemptible attacks on the federal and state courts, the judges of these courts and their families, and the other participants in the judicial process.
It is the responsibility of the Supreme Court of the United States in the first instance to protect the federal courts, the federal judges, and all participants in the justice system from the reprehensible spectacle of the former president's inexcusable, threatening attacks, just as it is the responsibility of the respective State Supreme Courts in the first instance to protect their courts and their state judges from the same.
Ultimately, however, it is the responsibility of the entire nation to protect its courts and judges, its Constitution, its Rule of Law, and America's Democracy from vicious attack, threat, undermine, and deliberate delegitimization at the hands of anyone so determined.
In the months ahead, the former president can only be expected to ramp up his unprecedented efforts to delegitimize the courts of the United States, the nations state courts, and Americas system of justice, through his vicious, disgraceful, and unforgiveable attacks and threats on the Federal and State Judiciaries and the individual Judges of these courts.
Never in American history has any person, let alone a President of the United States, leveled such threatening attacks against the federal and state courts and federal and state judicial officers of the kind the former president has leveled continually now for years.
But suffice it to say, never in history has any person leveled such attacks and been met with such passivity, acquiescence, and submissiveness by the nation.
It is a regrettable commentary on our times that a lone federal judge, The Honorable Judge Reggie B. Walton -- because no one whose responsibility it is to do so has had the courage and the will -- would finally be left no choice but, himself, to express on national television the profound concerns of the entire Federal and State Judiciaries over Donald Trumps contemptible attacks on the federal and state courts, the judges of these courts and their families, and the other participants in the judicial process.
It is the responsibility of the Supreme Court of the United States in the first instance to protect the federal courts, the federal judges, and all participants in the justice system from the reprehensible spectacle of the former president's inexcusable, threatening attacks, just as it is the responsibility of the respective State Supreme Courts in the first instance to protect their courts and their state judges from the same.
Ultimately, however, it is the responsibility of the entire nation to protect its courts and judges, its Constitution, its Rule of Law, and America's Democracy from vicious attack, threat, undermine, and deliberate delegitimization at the hands of anyone so determined.
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Judge Luttig: "The Nation is witnessing the determined delegitimization of both its Federal and State judiciaries..." [View all]
CousinIT
Mar 29
OP
Yes, really. This is what the hatred, criminal actions and general contempt of government from Conservatives
hadEnuf
Mar 29
#18
Oh no djt does not give a sweet hoot about Jesus, the Bible, religion, or churches.
magicarpet
Mar 29
#40
We all know what is happening, everyone is talking about it, the legal system needs to act. Blah, blah, blah
Escurumbele
Mar 30
#50
True. Too many of them are. L. Leo and Trump / MAGA are delegitimizing courts but...
CousinIT
Mar 29
#8
This won't stop if Biden wins the election. But, if he loses, all will be lost.
Earth-shine
Mar 29
#11
Judge Luttig's point in my understanding after listening to him on many occasions
cayugafalls
Mar 30
#47
Indeed, Trump is the carefully chosen front man/diversion for the efforts to change US
Attilatheblond
Mar 30
#48
Luttig is correct: Trump represents the greatest threat to the Constitution in the nation's history.
Kid Berwyn
Mar 29
#16
It's the whole Republican Party and it's fascist oligarch owners. tRump is not doing this alone.
diane in sf
Mar 29
#32
the rs are doing ths to service only him. the just us system. rich mans court.
AllaN01Bear
Mar 29
#36
Lets see- Who is the one judge who is not receiving these threats, bombast, and intimidation?
NBachers
Mar 29
#39
Nicolle Wallace presents a groundbreaking MSNBC segment, featuring Judge Reggie Walton's CNN interview
LetMyPeopleVote
Mar 30
#51