Retired Conservative Judge Helps Launch Effort To Prevent Trump From Destroying The Country

Retired conservative judge and respected legal scholar Michael Luttig announced the formation of a new group that includes the American Bar Association, whose purpose will be to protect Democracy if Donald Trump wins a second term in office. With possibly thousands of lawyers at the ready, the group will aim to prevent Trump from shredding the Constitution by launching legal challenges to any and everything that he tries to do in a second term, and that could be mean an endless flurry of lawsuits. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains why this is necessary.

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Former conservative federal judge, Michael Ludwig, who by the way happens to be one of the leading legal scholars in the country. He is often quoted, often interviewed Mr. Ludwig. Again, conservative justice has launched a new idea, a new group almost, if you will, calling on legal minds, legal experts, and of course, just lawyers to join in the effort to prevent Donald Trump from destroying the country if he wins the White House next year. And the reason for this, before I get into the plan, let me just go ahead and reiterate to everybody, we got a thing out there called Project 2025, being pushed by groups, led by the Heritage Foundation Project 2020 five's goal is to find 55,000 Trump loyalists and replace basically every civil servant in the federal government that they can with a Trump yes man, all the way from just low level data entry to high level legal minds and lawyers at the Department of Justice. The goal of this is to make sure that there's nobody in government that's gonna tell Donald Trump, no. You want to erect a hundred foot wall on the southern border. We're gonna make it to where you can. You wanna stay in office longer than your term limits, say you're allowed to. We're gonna make sure that you can, you wanna round up all the liberals in this country and put 'em off in a, you know, segregated area. We're gonna make sure that you can.

Mr. Ludwig understands the dangers posed by Donald Trump and Project 2025. So here's what he posted on social media. The causes of our times are America's democracy and rule of law. And American Bar Association President Mary Smith, has convened a blue ribbon task force for American democracy to steady protect and preserve our faltering democracy. In the years ahead, the almost one and a half million lawyers in the legal profession are uniquely positioned and uniquely obligated to preserve, protect, and defend American democracy and the rule of law. The task force comprises 32 leaders of the national effort that has been underway to strengthen the bull work of our democracy. And the members of the task force are collectively some of the country's most respected, articulate, and passionate defenders of American democracy. In short, Donald Trump, who in addition to the 55,000 other reports, have also confirmed that he is putting together an army of Trump loyal lawyers. This group says we're gonna get a bunch of non-Trump lawyer lawyers who are ready to fight, who are ready to go to court every time you do anything that steps outside of the law or the constitution. This is a great move. Like this is a good, good thing

Happening here. It's nice to see that even conservatives like Ludd himself can understand the dangers posed to this country by Donald Trump, and they can work with people who they may not necessarily agree with politically to preserve this country because that's what's going to be needed if Trump wins these things. We're warning people about it. It's not conspiracy theories or hyperbole, it's things that are happening right now. The pieces are being put together, but there is opposition and they're putting the pieces together on the other side to make sure that Trump cannot be successful with whatever the hell it is he wants to do to become a dictator of the United States.