Retired conservative federal judge urges Supreme Court to disqualify Trump from office | CNN Politics
CNNA former conservative federal appellate judge is urging the Supreme Court to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, arguing the ex-president s effort to cling to power after his 2020 election loss was broader than South Carolina s secession from the US that triggered the Civil War.
Mr. Trump tried to prevent the newly-elected President Biden from governing anywhere in the United States. The South Carolina secession prevented the newly-elected President Lincoln from governing only in that State, J. Michael Luttig, a former judge on the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, told the justices in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Monday.
Trump incited, and therefore engaged in, an armed insurrection against the Constitution s express and foundational mandates that require the peaceful transfer of executive power to a newly-elected President, the brief said. In doing so, Mr. Trump disqualified himself under Section 3 (of the Constitution).
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I met Mike Luttig when he was a senior associate at Davis, Polk and I was interviewing there. I didn’t go there in the end and maybe I should have. Mike is a great guy but I’m not sure I agree with him about the SCOTUS case.