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erronis

(21,356 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:48 AM Aug 29

Have You Had Enough? Judge Luttig has. -- Tom Sullivan

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.”


. . .

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.
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Have You Had Enough? Judge Luttig has. -- Tom Sullivan (Original Post) erronis Aug 29 OP
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Aug 29 #1
You had me at... Roy Rolling Aug 30 #19
Seriously I am exhausted and I don't even live there malaise Aug 30 #20
This country needs to wake up and elect a super majority in both the house and senate to impeach the trump enabling chowder66 Aug 29 #2
I had enough several months ago. MLWR Aug 29 #3
I had enough after evolves Aug 29 #4
THIS! 🤔...But actually probably after "Birthergate". 😬 electric_blue68 Aug 29 #7
Fascism Iwasthere Aug 29 #5
Thanks for the Medium link. Need to click the Close Window X to read (if not a subscriber) erronis Aug 29 #6
Excellent article mountain grammy Aug 29 #16
Expand the SCOTUS Quanto Magnus Aug 29 #8
The Rehnquist 5 started this nightmare on 12/12/00 ClimateChangeisReal Aug 29 #9
And you know trump and bondi would laugh if they read that IcyPeas Aug 29 #10
K and FUCKING R Blue Owl Aug 29 #11
Return of the Jedi Judges? 'The most illegal search': Judges push back against D.C. criminal charges Attilatheblond Aug 29 #12
Trump doesn't care about illegal possession of firearms in DC, 70sEraVet Aug 30 #21
Thank you, Erronis, for this posting. Bumbles Aug 29 #13
Luttig is a patriot Alice Kramden Aug 29 #14
The resistance is alive. Martin68 Aug 29 #15
The real villains in this story are SCOTUS Takket Aug 29 #17
PRECISELY!! Cha Aug 30 #18
ive been saying that for every r adminn since ray gun. but i say when are we going to wear brown shirts ? AllaN01Bear Aug 30 #22

malaise

(289,351 posts)
20. Seriously I am exhausted and I don't even live there
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 07:52 AM
Aug 30

Last edited Sat Aug 30, 2025, 09:55 AM - Edit history (1)

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chowder66

(11,313 posts)
2. This country needs to wake up and elect a super majority in both the house and senate to impeach the trump enabling
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 11:44 AM
Aug 29

SC justices.

erronis

(21,356 posts)
6. Thanks for the Medium link. Need to click the Close Window X to read (if not a subscriber)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 12:29 PM
Aug 29

Someone else posted this via FB a few days ago. Always worth a re-read.

IcyPeas

(24,273 posts)
10. And you know trump and bondi would laugh if they read that
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:54 PM
Aug 29

When Trump said he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and not lose any voters

I used to think that was just hyperbole..

Attilatheblond

(7,307 posts)
12. Return of the Jedi Judges? 'The most illegal search': Judges push back against D.C. criminal charges
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 01:56 PM
Aug 29
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g-s1-85119/crime-washington-dc-judges-arrests]

U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said the search was illegal & "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search." Seems walking while black with a heavy backpack is not cause.

President Trump has ordered National Guard members and federal law enforcement officers to "clean up" the city and crack down on crime. He signed a new executive order on Monday to ensure more people arrested in D.C. face federal charges and are held in pretrial detention "whenever possible."

Newly confirmed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro has directed her prosecutors to seek maximum charges against defendants — and to seek to detain them. And the court system is straining to respond.

...

"The government has determined that dismissal of this matter is in the interests of justice," prosecutors wrote in court papers.

A spokesman for the Department of Justice said Pirro moved to dismiss the charges once she was shown body camera footage of the arrest on Friday.


Notorious wine over-indulger and FOX news slurrer turned Trump appointed DC Prosecutor said "This judge has a long history of bending over backwards to release dangerous felons in possession of firearms and on frequent occasions he has downplayed the seriousness of felons who possess illegal firearms and the danger they pose to our community. The comments he made today are no different than those he makes in other cases involving dangerous criminals."

Doesn't change the fact that the man was searched without warrant or cause and the judge is not happy with 'Oops' when arrests go on people's records. Frequently inebriated fake news yakker turned prosecutor's recent demand to go after the biggest charge possible in all cases is not winning her points with the over-burdened judges, evidently.

The arrested man was in illegal possession of firearms and the state where his previous conviction is the entity to deal with his violation of carrying those guns.

70sEraVet

(4,918 posts)
21. Trump doesn't care about illegal possession of firearms in DC,
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 09:52 AM
Aug 30

as long as the 'possessors' are his supporters.

Trump said 'I don't effing care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me' as an angry mob avoided metal detectors at his January 6 speech: ex-aide testimony

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-weapons-january-6-crowd-dont-fucking-care-2022-6

Takket

(23,238 posts)
17. The real villains in this story are SCOTUS
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:35 PM
Aug 29

it is one thing for drumpf to smear in online posts and Levitt to play right wing talking point bingo at the podium, but SCOTUS is doing the actual damage to the judiciary by taking case after case of completely lawless and baseless appeals from drumpf, and throwing out the accurate judgements of lower courts.

AllaN01Bear

(27,455 posts)
22. ive been saying that for every r adminn since ray gun. but i say when are we going to wear brown shirts ?
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 10:30 AM
Aug 30
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