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Oct 29, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | J. Michael Luttig
We Americans live in faith with our Constitution and with the past generations of Americans who swore to protect it and fought to defend it. One week from today, we will decide whether Donald Trump is fit to be President of the United States again. He is not. When we entrusted our Constitution and our democracy with him before, he betrayed us.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
inquirer.com | J. Michael Luttig |Jeh Johnson
Since its founding, Pennsylvania has been a leader in upholding the best traditions of our nation — long living up to the commonwealth’s motto of “Virtue, Liberty, and Independence.” As we find ourselves heading into an election that will test the strength of our institutions, and, in particular, our system of elections, it’s fitting to see that Pennsylvania once again stands on the front lines of a battle to preserve this cornerstone of our democracy.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | J. Michael Luttig |Laurence H. Tribe
The Supreme Court of the United States did a grave disservice to both the Constitution and the nation in Trump v. Anderson. In a stunning disfigurement of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court impressed upon it an ahistorical misinterpretation that defies both its plain text and its original meaning.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
rsn.org | J. Michael Luttig |Laurence H. Tribe
A requiem for Section 3 of the Fourteenth AmendmentThe Supreme Court of the United States did a grave disservice to both the Constitution and the nation in Trump v. Anderson.
In a stunning disfigurement of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court impressed upon it an ahistorical misinterpretation that defies both its plain text and its original meaning.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
nyti.ms | George Conway |J. Michael Luttig |Barbara Comstock
Opinion|America Needs a Pro-Democracy Conservative Legal Establishmenthttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/opinion/trump-lawyers-constitution-democracy.htmlGuest EssayNov. 21, 2023, 5:02 a.m. ETGeorge Conway, J. Michael Luttig and The writers are lawyers. Mr. Conway was in private practice. Mr. Luttig was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1991 to 2006. Ms. Comstock represented Virginia’s 10th District in Congress from 2015 to 2019.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
nyti.ms | George Conway |J. Michael Luttig |Barbara Comstock
Opinion|The Trump Threat Is Growing. Lawyers Must Rise to Meet This Moment. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/opinion/trump-lawyers-constitution-democracy.htmlGuest EssayGeorge Conway, J. Michael Luttig and The writers are lawyers. Mr. Conway was in private practice. Mr. Luttig was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1991 to 2006. Ms. Comstock represented Virginia’s 10th District in Congress from 2015 to 2019.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
georgialawreview.org | J. Michael Luttig
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
portside.org | J. Michael Luttig |Laurence H. Tribe
The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again Published August 20, 2023 As students of the United States Constitution for many decades—one of us as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge, the other as a professor of constitutional law, and both as constitutional advocates, scholars, and practitioners—we long ago came to the conclusion that the Fourteenth Amendment, the amendment ratified in 1868 that represents our nation’s second founding and a new birth of freedom, contains within...
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Aug 19, 2023 | 
msn.com | J. Michael Luttig
As students of the United States Constitution for many decades—one of us as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge, the other as a professor of constitutional law, and both as constitutional advocates, scholars, and practitioners—we long ago came to the conclusion that the Fourteenth Amendment, the amendment ratified in 1868 that represents our nation’s second founding and a new birth of freedom, contains within it a protection against the dissolution of the republic by a treasonous president.
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Jun 25, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | J. Michael Luttig
Donald Trump this month became the first former or incumbent American president to be charged with crimes against the nation that he once led and wishes to lead again. He cynically calculated that his indictment would ensure that a riled-up Republican Party base would nominate him as its standard-bearer in 2024, and the last few weeks have proved that his political calculation was probably right.
