Retired Conservative Federal Judge Calls For Constitutional Amendment To Undo The Mess The Supreme Court Made

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I support a constitutional amendment that would repudiate the Supreme Court’s faithless decision in Trump v. United States and restore the animating principle of our Nation and of our Constitution that no man is above the law, least of all the President of the United States.

With its abominable decision in Trump v. United States three days before Independence Day 2024, the Supreme Court cut the heart and soul out of America’s Democracy and the Rule of Law.

No longer can it be said that in America no man is above the law, because on that day, the Supreme Court held that the President of the United States — and in particular the former president of the United States – actually is above the law.

—Retired Judge Michael Luttig, appointed to the Fourth Circuit by President George H.W. Bush, sounded off on social media about the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision. He continued with a history lesson, “Almost 250 years ago, in his pamphlet Common Sense advocating for America’s independence from the British Monarchy, Thomas Pain[e] rhetorically asked the same profound question that was put to the Supreme Court in Trump v. United States and he answered it quite differently: ‘But where, say some, is the King of America? . . . [S]o far as we approve of monarchy . . . in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.’” Thomas Paine’s answer stood unchallenged and unquestioned as America’s answer and response to monarchical government by Kings and Queens for almost 250 years. That is, until July 1, 2024.”