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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave You Had Enough? Judge Luttig has. -- Tom Sullivan
https://digbysblog.net/2025/08/28/have-you-had-enough/President Donald Trump and AG Pam Bondis reprehensible attacks on the rule of law and on the courts have gotten under Luttigs 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 Trumps and Pam Bondis 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 Cullens 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 Trumps and Pam Bondis corruption of the Rule of Law in America will continue apace until the American People stand up and cry out No More. Weve had enough. We are a nation of laws, not of men.
. . .
Expect Trump and Bondi to target Luttig now. Its how they roll.
Ive been out in the street twice this week at rush hour flipping around another of my two-sided signs. Im 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.

malaise
(289,351 posts)RFN!
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Roy Rolling
(7,315 posts)
has had all he can stand and he cant stands no more.
malaise
(289,351 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 30, 2025, 09:55 AM - Edit history (1)
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chowder66
(11,313 posts)SC justices.
MLWR
(551 posts)evolves
(5,644 posts)the escalator ride 10 fucking years ago.
electric_blue68
(23,983 posts)And Thank You, judges!
Iwasthere
(3,399 posts)erronis
(21,356 posts)Someone else posted this via FB a few days ago. Always worth a re-read.
mountain grammy
(28,232 posts)I agree
Quanto Magnus
(1,259 posts)this regressive court is harming our country daily.
ClimateChangeisReal
(91 posts)No one should ever forget that.
IcyPeas
(24,273 posts)When Trump said he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and not lose any voters
I used to think that was just hyperbole..
Blue Owl
(57,389 posts)
Attilatheblond
(7,307 posts)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.
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)as long as the 'possessors' are his supporters.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-weapons-january-6-crowd-dont-fucking-care-2022-6
Bumbles
(413 posts)I may have to use the sign on the Labor Day protest.
Alice Kramden
(2,784 posts)KnR
Martin68
(26,498 posts)Takket
(23,238 posts)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.
Cha
(314,546 posts)TY & J. Michael Luttig
AllaN01Bear
(27,455 posts)
