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The Guardian - US
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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Conservative former federal judge says Trump has ‘declared war’ on US rule of law

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J Michael Luttig and Donald Trump. Photograph: EPA/Getty Images

Donald Trump has “declared war on the rule of law in America” and is pitching the country into a constitutional crisis, a prominent former conservative federal judge said.

“The president of the United States has essentially declared war on the rule of law in America,” J Michael Luttig told MSNBC. “In the past few weeks … the president himself has led a full-frontal assault on the constitution, the rule of law, the federal judiciary, the American justice system and the nation’s legal profession.

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