Have You Had Enough? Judge Luttig has. -- Tom Sullivan [View all]

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https://digbysblog.net/2025/08/28/have-you-had-enough/

J. Michael Luttig, the slow-talking, retired U.S. Court of Appeals judge of January 6 Committee testimony fame, has had all he can stands and he can’t stands no more.

President Donald Trump and AG Pam Bondi’s “reprehensible” attacks on the rule of law and on the courts have gotten under Luttig’s skin enough that he launched a Substack two months back.

He wrote on Tuesday:

The Honorable Thomas T. Cullen, the Federal District Court Judge from the Federal District Court in the Western District of Virginia, who had to be brought in to decide Donald Trump’s and Pam Bondi’s corrupt and unprecedented lawsuit against the entire Federal Court in Maryland, just destroyed Trump and Bondi under the Rule of Law and denounced their “concerted effort” to politicize and delegitimize the Federal Courts and the individual judges of the Federal Judiciary.

Footnote 2 from Judge Cullen’s blistering Memorandum Opinion in Civil Action No. 1:25-cv-02029:

“Indeed, over the past several months, principal officers of the Executive (and their spokespersons) have described federal district judges across the country as “left-wing,” “liberal,” “activists,” “radical,” “politically minded,” “rogue,” “unhinged,” “outrageous, overzealous, [and] unconstitutional,” “[c]rooked,” and worse. Although some tension between the coordinate branches of government is a hallmark of our constitutional system, this concerted effort by the Executive to smear and impugn individual judges who rule against it is both unprecedented and unfortunate.”

. . .

The very idea that the President and Attorney General of the United States of America were so contemptuous of the federal courts as to even bring this utterly frivolous lawsuit against a Federal Court of the United States for the sole purpose of threatening and intimidating the federal courts across the nation is reprehensible.

And to think that every day of the week, Pam Bondi (and Donald Trump) lecture millions upon millions of truly honorable, law-abiding Americans that they are not above the law and that she and the President will not hesitate to prosecute them for even daring to violate the law. That is, they will not hesitate to prosecute anyone who dares violate the law as they deem the law to be, not the law of the land as determined by the federal courts.

This is why we Americans live in fear today.

Luttig takes a swing at the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts as well:

The Supreme Court is never going to stop this intentional and deliberate corruption of the Federal Judiciary and Rule of Law by this President and his Attorney General.

Donald Trump’s and Pam Bondi’s corruption of the Rule of Law in America will continue apace until the American People stand up and cry out “No More. We’ve had enough. We are a nation of laws, not of men.”

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Expect Trump and Bondi to target Luttig now. It’s how they roll.

I’ve been out in the street twice this week at rush hour flipping around another of my two-sided signs. I’m out there again this afternoon with friends at a third location giving neighbors permission to get off their couches.



Amid the honks and thumbs-ups, two different passersby, men about 30, stopped and asked what “goose-step” meant.