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We are conservative and libertarian lawyers standing up for the rule of law. RTs are not endorsements; views expressed may not be those of all members.

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@chkbal

Society for the Rule of Law Institute

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Watch the playback of our live event featuring @gtconway3d and @AmbJohnBolton ! We covered the rule of law, the state of America's legal institutions, and what comes next:

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LIVE EVENT – “The Room Where It Happened”: An Insider’s View of the...

The Society for the Rule of Law Institute hosted a live, in-person event in Washington DC on March 27 featuring former National Security Advisor John Bolton ...

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@chkbal

Society for the Rule of Law Institute

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JUST NOW: Former Deputy AG under Bush 41, Donald Ayer, to House Judiciary Committee: "The drumbeat of [Bill Barr's] misbehavior is accelerating as we get closer to the election. I don't know what's next, but I'm scared to think about what it might be."

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. @judgeluttig : “American democracy is in greater peril today than it has ever been in American history.”

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Trump is "perhaps the most dishonest person to ever sit in the White House" & "he is capable of doing serious damage" -via @Newsweek interview with Charles Fried, Reagan's Solicitor General and Member of @chkbal

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Reagan's Solicitor General Says 'All Honorable People' Left Trump's Cabinet

Former solicitor general under Reagan and Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried blasts President Trump and William Barr, saying of Barr, "You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. His reputation...

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US Attorney Berman has made clear that Attorney General Barr’s attempt to fire him implicates ongoing criminal investigations. And apparently Berman’s office has been investigating the president’s personal attorney and possibly other matters potentially affecting the president.

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"Barr has committed to Trump warts and all, but the warts are in fact suppurating sores, and he is now fatally infected." A compelling read from Charles Fried + Ed Larson of @chkbal via @TheAtlantic

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How Far Bill Barr Has Fallen

If people cannot believe one another, communication breaks down, trust becomes impossible, and society corrodes. And people cannot trust the attorney general.

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NEW VIDEO: Two senior Justice Dept officials from George HW Bush administration explain the importance of witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial. A trial is a search for the truth. No senators should want to hide or ignore the facts. @chkbal members @dbatrout & @stuartmgerson

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Checks and Balances and some likeminded constitutionalists have issued a statement calling for the immediate removal of the President of the United States:

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“Throughout the Clinton impeachment, Judge Starr consistently opposed the invocation of executive privilege and called for all the witnesses to come forward. Trump will have a hard time squaring that...” --Checks & Balances member @RosenzweigP

Ken Starr Returns to the Impeachment Fray, This Time for the Defense (Published 2020)

The independent counsel whose investigation resulted in a Senate trial for President Bill Clinton has joined the team defending President Trump.

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. @judgeluttig : "The former president and his administration pushed beyond the boundaries of the Constitution and the laws of the United States, into democracy itself."

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We are a group of conservative and libertarian lawyers standing up for the rule of law. Our mission statement is here:

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We accordingly urge Congress to immediately require Barr and others to testify under oath about Barr’s reasons for attempting to remove Berman, and about why Barr sought to do so at this time.

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. @gtconway3d : “The Constitution is concerned with protecting the presidency, not the person who happens to be the president. That’s because no one in this country is above the law.”

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President Trump has taken his case to the Supreme Court. He will lose — or should. @gtconway3d explains why:

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Our statement today on @realDonaldTrump ’s abuse of his office and impeachment proceedings:

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We’ve issued this statement in response to Attorney General Barr’s recent address before the Federalist Society:

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Statement in Response to Attorney General Barr’s Address at Federalist Society - Society for the...

Statement from co-founders and additional members of Checks & Balances: As lawyers, many of whom have served in upper level positions in prior Republican administrations, we consider ourselves...

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NEW: Former GOP Officials and attorneys demand accountability Senate should hold "a President of their party to account for this unprecedented mayhem at our Nation’s Capitol and attack on our Constitutional order." Read the full statement:

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Congress and DOJ attorneys must take whatever actions they can to ensure that sensitive criminal investigations will not be obstructed or terminated for political reasons or for the personal benefit of any public official, no matter how high that official may be.

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Former Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer: "We have known all along that there are a number of people who can shed light on what the President did, and two of them are John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney" via @Newsweek interview

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Former George HW Bush DOJ Officials Stress Importance of Hearing Witnesses

Former Justice Department officials discussed the importance of witnesses during the Senate's impeachment trial in a new video.

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NEW STATEMENT: 19 @chkbal members including former GOP Administration lawyers: "The election is not over until every legal ballot is counted, & our State officials responsible for conducting the election will not allow any candidate to steal the election"

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Statement on the Need to Count All the Votes, Abide by the People's Will - Society for the Rule of...

Statement from members of Checks & Balances: The President shows his continuing contempt for the rule of law by seeking to prematurely declare himself the winner in the election, end the vote count,...

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Society for the Rule of Law Institute

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Former Acting Attorney General Stuart Gerson and former Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer with a message on the Senate impeachment trial. Here's the @chkbal video...

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"The attorney general’s apparent goal is to turn DOJ into an arm of the president’s personal interests. He seems to have no regard for the department’s independence, and is doing long-term damage to the fabric of American justice." @RosenzweigP of @chkbal

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Why Bill Barr Got Rid of Geoffrey Berman

This is how an authoritarian works to subvert justice.

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From our own @thetrevorpotter , former Bush 41 appointee to and chairman of, the Federal Election Commission: Trump’s and Barr’s claims about mail-in voting are “baseless and harmful to our democracy.”

Trevor Potter: Trump and Barr make baseless and harmful claims about mail-in ballot fraud

Attorney General William Barr has been busy following President Trump’s lead in spreading unfounded theories about potential widespread fraud in absentee voting. As an election lawyer for Republican...

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Stuart Gerson, AAG under Bush 41, on Barr's attempt to fire Berman: "The upshot of all of this is that the administration is subverting the rule of law...in a clear attempt to favor associates of the president and insulate his own misconduct from scrutiny."

Opinion | In the crisis at Justice, impartial rule of law is on the line

The attorney general is again politicizing the administration of justice.

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NEW STATEMENT by current and former R's: "We are dismayed that most Congressional Republicans...continue to be silent in the face of the President’s conduct & to abet his false narrative that he won an election that is being stolen from him"

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We’re proud to say that John Bellinger is a founding member of Checks & Balances! @chkbal

@realDonaldTrump

Donald J. Trump

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Never Trumper Republican John Bellinger, represents Never Trumper Diplomat Bill Taylor (who I don’t know), in testimony before Congress! Do Nothing Democrats allow Republicans Zero Representation, Zero due process, and Zero Transparency....

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Under HW Bush, Donald Ayer preceded Barr as Deputy AG. Today, Ayer writes: The "unprecedented pattern of conduct by the nation’s chief law-enforcement officer has brought a question to the minds of many people: Why does Bill Barr do the things he does?"

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Bill Barr is convinced that the country is betraying its founding—and that it’s up to him to stop it.

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What’s more, a great deal of other conduct by Attorney General Barr during the past two years has improperly politicized and jeopardized the impartial administration of justice.

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. @gtconway3d : "What is Donald Trump's understanding of treason?" @AmbJohnBolton : "It's anybody who gets publicity he thinks he ought to get. It reflects that his understanding of treason is entirely personal. It's not treason against the country. It's treason against Trump."

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A story from a time when a Republican president understood the rule of law and his duties to the nation.

@anniekarni

Annie Karni

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James Baker memo from 1992: “They wanted us to contact the Russians or the British to seek information on Bill Clinton’s trip to Moscow. I said we absolutely could not do that.” via @PeterbakerNYT

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“Finally, a message for any government employee or contractor who believes they have learned of or observed unethical, wasteful, or illegal behavior in the federal government. The American people deserve an honest and effective government. ...”

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Natasha Bertrand

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JUST IN: Striking new statement from IC inspector general Michael Atkinson, who was fired by Trump on Friday. “It is hard not to think that the President’s loss of confidence in me derives from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations...”

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The need to defend the Constitution transcends political differences & competing legal philosophies. The question is now about first principles: Will you put the rule of law over partisanship? We are living thru a Constitutional emergency. We must act like it. Via @gtconway3d

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"It's time for a new conservative legal movement." @judgeluttig on @Morning_Joe talking about what it's going to take to rebuild a healthy, pro-democracy ecosystem on the right. Lawyers need to take the lead in upholding the rule of law—not undermining it. It's our job.

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"Trump’s lawyers complain that no witness talked to Trump about the linkage between the aid and the investigation. Well, here’s Bolton, ready, willing, and able to testify." - @gtconway3d

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“Mr. Gerson echoed that sentiment. ‘It’s important for conservatives to speak up,’ he said. ‘This administration is anything but conservative.’”

Barr’s Legal Views Come Under Fire From Conservative-Leaning Lawyers (Published 2019)

A speech by Mr. Barr last week, in which he argued that Mr. Trump had never overstepped his authority, so alarmed a group of lawyers that they felt compelled to push back publicly.

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A letter to the @washingtonpost from our own Charles Fried, former Solicitor General of the United States: “White House counsel Pat Cipollone does not understand the constitutional system for the removal of a president.”

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Opinion | What the White House counsel gets wrong about impeachment

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If Senators vote against hearing witnesses, “they will have sacrificed their own oaths to protect their own electoral prospects” - @gtconway3d

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. @AmbJohnBolton on a 2nd Trump term: "As he says frequently, this will be a retribution presidency. The retribution, he says, will be on behalf of his supporters, not about him personally. That's ridiculous. Of course it's about Donald Trump personally. Everything is to him."

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Some of our co-founders and additional members have issued a statement:

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. @judgeluttig on @Morning_Joe : "We decided it's time for a new conservative legal movement that will preserve, protect, and defend American democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law in the years ahead. And that's what we intend to do."

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“Mr. Fried [elaborated:] ‘Conservatism is respect for the rule of law. It is respect for tradition. ... The people who claim they’re conservatives today are demanding loyalty to this completely lawless, ignorant, foul-mouthed president.’”

Barr’s Legal Views Come Under Fire From Conservative-Leaning Lawyers (Published 2019)

A speech by Mr. Barr last week, in which he argued that Mr. Trump had never overstepped his authority, so alarmed a group of lawyers that they felt compelled to push back publicly.

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"The courts are free to determine on their own what is an insurrection and whether the facts meet that. A judge found that Trump engaged in insurrection by clear and convincing evidence. And there's no basis to challenge that finding." @gtconway3d on @Morning_Joe

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RIGHT NOW: Donald Ayer before the House Judiciary Committee: "Barr’s central goal is…to systematically dismantle the system of checks and balances that stand between this President and unchecked power." Read Ayer's full statement here —

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NEW: We've issued this statement responding to President Trump's firing of Michael Atkinson, Inspector General of the Intelligence Community:

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. @gtconway3d : "You can't look at Trump through the lens of a normal human being. People like to attribute strategy and foresight to him as though he is playing, as the phrase goes, multidimensional chess. Is he at all capable of that?" @AmbJohnBolton : "No."

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NEW: Statement from 26 of us at @chkbal about the importance of CONFIDENCE in our ELECTION. Read the full statement 👇

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Statement on Confidence in the November Election - Society for the Rule of Law

Statement from co-founders and additional members of Checks & Balances: This week, President Trump suggested that the election on November 3rd might be postponed. To be clear, he has no power to do...

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Bravo.

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The Washington Post

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Opinion: We are entering a dangerous period, 44 former senators write in The Post. The Senate must again stand in defense of democracy.

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. @AmbJohnBolton with @gtconway3d : "Nixon was crushed and resigned because he knew he would be impeached. You know what Trump would say about that? He would say Richard Nixon is a loser. You can't treat him like an ordinary person. He doesn't react the same way."

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"While a president has the authority to nominate and select officials in his administration, he does not have the authority to make a mockery of the Appointments Clause of the Constitution, statutory mandates and Senate confirmation"

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“They are counting on you to use authorized channels to bravely speak up—there is no disgrace in doing so. ... Please do not allow recent events to silence your voices.”

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Natasha Bertrand

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JUST IN: Striking new statement from IC inspector general Michael Atkinson, who was fired by Trump on Friday. “It is hard not to think that the President’s loss of confidence in me derives from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations...”

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. @RosenzweigP on AG Barr's legacy: "He will be remembered, if at all, for the destruction of important protections against prosecutorial abuse."

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Ex-Starr Whitewater counsel: Barr threatens US justice by doing Trump bidding on Stone

Trump has long believed the Department of Justice exists to protect his friends and punish his enemies. What's new is that Barr is listening to him.

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The Constitution is under active threat. The legal community has a special obligation to protect it. And pro-democracy conservative lawyers especially. @judgeluttig understands the magnitude of the crisis. It's incumbent on people of conscience from all over to follow his lead.

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The time has come for a new legal movement committed to American Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law, without regard to partisan politics and partisan political party affiliation, and

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“With Bill Barr, on an amazing number of occasions … you can be almost 100 percent certain that there’s something improper going on” -former Deputy Attorney General under HW Bush & @chkbal member Donald Ayer

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'Really shocking': Trump's meddling in Stone case stuns Washington

Alarmed veterans of the Justice Department said the legal system was entering uncharted territory.

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"From a conservative standpoint, it’s clear to me that the President is offending the rule of law generally and the Constitution specifically." -Stuart Gerson, former head of DOJ's Civil Division under HW Bush

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Trench Lawfare: Inside the Battles to Save Democracy From the Trump Administration

The nonprofit Protect Democracy has been working to defend America’s system of government against the threat of authoritarianism

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Statement from @chkbal ’s founders: All should condemn the president’s racist tweets, especially those in office, and regardless of party. By attacking elected members of Congress based on ethnicity, he undermines our nation’s basic values and its system of checks and balances.

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. @AmbJohnBolton with @gtconway3d : "I'm still amazed that he's about to get the Republican nomination for president. We all made a mistake in releasing our breath on January 20, 2021. We should have started on January 21 to worry about it."

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"This is a victory not just for members of the border and immigrant communities, but also for the rule of law — and it’s an example of patriots working across partisan lines to defend the Constitution. Congress should take note."

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Republicans, Democrats transcended politics to fight border wall funding, defend democracy....

A federal judge's injunction blocking the Trump administration from using military funding to build the border wall was a victory for the rule of law.

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Thank you, @JohnWDean !

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John W. Dean

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VERY GOOD NEWS: Conservative lawyers to launch Society for Rule of Law to counter Maga movement. This is basic to protecting our democracy!

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. @judgeluttig discussing threats to the rule of law on @Morning_Joe : "What do we do about it? We need, frankly, Republicans to join the chorus that our very democracy and our rule of law in America are in peril."

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"I always read dissents first. If Trump is going to win in the Supreme Court, he has to come up with some better arguments that these dissents have." @gtconway3d on why he thinks the Colorado Supreme Court got Anderson v. Griswold right. Via @Morning_Joe

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A must read in @TheAtlantic by @dbatrout , who served as Deputy Attorney General under George HW Bush. "The fundamental problem is that [Bill Barr] does not believe in the central tenet of our system of government—that no person is above the law."

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Our own Don Ayer, former Deputy Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration, will be on @maddow tonight to discuss the DOJ, Barr, and the Stone sentencing. He doesn’t mince words.

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An excellent piece by our own Stuart Gerson, former Acting Attorney General: "many citizens both inside and outside Dept of Justice are asking whether DOJ stands for the rule of law or for the rule of an authoritarian administration." via @just_security

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Let the Rule of Law Rule Law Enforcement: An Appraisal of Bill Barr

A former Acting Attorney General who earlier served with Bill Barr in the H.W. Bush administration writes scathing critique of Barr.

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"President Trump is playing a shell game with the American people and rejecting the founding principle of this nation: We have a president, not a king." Donald Ayer of @chkbal + @GovCTW + @RepTomColeman via @latimesopinion

Op-Ed: Will the Supreme Court crown Trump as king?

It's come to this: 37 Republicans have had to band together to tell the Supreme Court that Donald Trump is not a king.

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In a conversation with @chkbal , Judge Mike Luttig explains the GOP's failure to stand up for truth: "I have for six years considered this the paradigmatic failure of leadership."

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“... In the meantime, don’t accept the argument that ‘Trump is cooperative.’ Call me when he gives blood.”

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Trump’s Defiance of the Rule of Law

Bill Clinton understood he had to follow the rules, even when they hurt. The current president is different.

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Former Acting AG @stuartmgerson : "These people style themselves, and the press unfortunately styles them, as conservatives. There's nothing conservative about them."

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Here’s a more complete statement of the views of @chkbal ’s founding members on President Trump’s racist tweets:

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. @gtconway3d on @cspanwj : "The mission is to protect the rule of law at a time when it is seriously under threat. We are trying to get the message out about the dangers that we face."

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Seriously, though, the Chief Justice is reflecting the same concerns that led us to create Checks and Balances to defend vital constitutional principles from attack. We urge others to speak out to defend the judiciary. Justice must transcend politics.

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"We will be in continuing crisis turmoil, chaos, perhaps amounting to Constitutional problems throughout a second Trump term. Because he will begin where he left off on Jan. 20 at noon, 2021. And he'll just pick it up again as if the intervening four years had not happened."

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"It’s an obvious conflict of interest for the president to be involved or for the attorney general to be trying to protect the president." Read more of @chkbal member @OrinKerr 's conversation on the "abuse of power in politics" ...

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Trump, Barr raise 'enormous red flags' over Justice Department neutrality

U.S. President Donald Trump (left) congratulates Attorney General William Barr in February 2019 after Barr was sworn in as the 85th U.S. Attorney General at a White House ceremony. (Official White...

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"Republican senators threaten the ultimate cheapening and trivialization of Congress’s constitutional obligations: holding a “trial” that would be nothing but a sham"

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Signatories:

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“Anyone who has carefully read Volume II of the Mueller report knows that it offers a very readable account of repeated acts by the president carefully tailored to interfere with and disrupt the investigation, ....”

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Robert Mueller Must Finish the Job

The special counsel should give us the benefit of his professional judgment on the legal significance of the facts he has found.

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“Members of [Checks & Balances] have sharply denounced what they described as abuses of power by Mr. Trump .... The speech by Mr. Barr ... , in which he argued that the president had never overstepped his authority, so alarmed them that they felt compelled to push back publicly.”

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”All such acts are the very essence of the abuse of power, the corrupt use of power, and it is precisely for that that the power of impeachment was ordained.”

When a presidential pardon is illegal - The Boston Globe

Nothing this norm-defying man has done or threatened cuts as close to the principle that we are a government of laws.

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“These vicious attacks on the judiciary and the federal court are unprecedented in American history by anyone, let alone a president of the United States. They represent a grave threat to the judiciary and the independence of the courts.” — @judgeluttig

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Trump ramps up attacks on the justice system when trials and key rulings loom, analysis shows

The former president's attacks on the prosecutors and judges in his civil and criminal cases are frequently tied to developments in his court cases, an NBC News analysis shows.

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“How in God’s name could so many lawyers get involved in something like this?” @JohnWDean 's question is as true today as it was in 1973. Those who laid the legal foundation for Trump's attempted coup must be held accountable—otherwise they'll do it again.

Opinion | Trump’s Lawyers Should Have Known Better

Fifty years after Watergate, a president again used lawyers to abuse his office. Those lawyers now face prosecution and tarnished their profession.

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Society for the Rule of Law Institute

5 years

From our own @RosenzweigP : “Clinton sat still one evening while the White House physician drew his blood, in the presence of an FBI agent and a prosecutor from Starr’s office. .... [He] must have understood—he simply must have— ....”

@TheAtlantic

The Atlantic

5 years

"Prior presidents understood that respect for the rule of law means, in the end, complying with the law, no matter what the cost," argues @RosenzweigP . "I should know—I was a member of Independent Counsel Ken Starr’s team that investigated him."

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"History will judge the Senate as much for how it handles the impeachment trial as how it resolves it. A fair trial will add credence to the result." Lessons from the Scopes Monkey Trial by Checks & Balances member Ed Larson in the @Tennessean

How Tennessee's infamous Scopes monkey trial can inform Trump's impeachment trial | Opinion

The 1925 trial in Tennessee, a clash over teaching evolution in schools, featured no witnesses. History doesn't smile upon that decision.

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. @gtconway3d : "When you left the White House, if you could have spoken to yourself when you took the job, what would you have said?" @AmbJohnBolton : "The first thing I would have said is: you're an idiot. But the second thing I would have said is: do it anyway."

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The former president’s claim of absolute immunity "has no basis in our constitutional text, structure, or history" and "cannot be squared with the Constitution’s text or history." Read the latest amicus brief signed by @gtconway3d and @thetrevorpotter :

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Members Sign Amicus Brief in US v. Trump - Society for the Rule of Law

Society for the Rule of Law members signed an amicus brief arguing that Trump's "absolute immunity" claim "has no basis in our constitutional text."

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Society for the Rule of Law Institute

4 years

Intemperate or threatening verbal assaults on the judiciary—whether district judges or Justices—by leaders of any political party have no place in a nation that lives by the rule of law. However politically polarized the times, responsible politicians should consider how ....

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Shannon Bream

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BREAKING from Chief Justice Roberts:

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“ ... He needs to be more direct about what the investigation found. And there seems little doubt that an unambiguous direct statement by Mueller of his own prosecutorial judgment based on the work of his team and their assessment of the law— ...”

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Robert Mueller Must Finish the Job

The special counsel should give us the benefit of his professional judgment on the legal significance of the facts he has found.

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“... Recall that Trump denied that there were ever any contacts between his campaign and the Russians. He denied it categorically. That was a lie. There are at least a hundred contacts between Trump campaign associates and the Russians.”

Mueller testimony reminds us everyone except Trump knows Russians interfered in election

'Two years ago, a foreign power launched a brazen ... influence campaign ... to distort our presidential election. ... It was the Russians.'

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Society for the Rule of Law Institute

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This, coauthored by one of @chkbal ’s founding members, @gtconway3d 👉

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Washington Post Opinions

5 years

"It is high time for Congress to do its duty, in the manner the framers intended." Trump has done plenty to warrant impeachment. But the Ukraine allegations are over the top, write @gtconway3d and @neal_katyal

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How do you spend $70k on haircuts? Is that actually deductible? Tax policy expert @mirandaperrygrl discusses on this week's pod with @JWVerret & @RosenzweigP Full episode:

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"Trump’s beef has always been not merely with individual federal judges who don’t bend to his will, but with the idea of an independent judiciary generally." @gtconway3d of @chkbal via @PostOpinions

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“John B. Bellinger III ... said that the statement from the chief justice was unusual, but appropriate. ‘Chief Justice Roberts was expressing the same concerns about the president’s attacks on important American institutions that motivated us to form Checks and Balances.’”

@nytpolitics

NYT Politics

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Among Conservatives, Some Measured Support for Chief Justice’s Rebuke of Trump

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Society for the Rule of Law Institute

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"Trump incited, and therefore engaged in, an armed insurrection against the Constitution’s express & foundational mandates that require the peaceful transfer of executive power to a newly-elected President." Read our new amicus brief in Trump v. Anderson:

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Members and Leadership Sign Amicus Brief in Trump v. Anderson - Society for the Rule of Law

Members and leadership signed a new amicus brief addressing whether the former president should be allowed ballot access in Colorado.

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Read @AndrewFeinberg 's excellent exclusive piece in the @Independent about our re-launch, and plans for protecting the Constitution and democracy in the difficult times ahead:

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Conservative lawyers to launch Society for Rule of Law to counter Maga movement

The group’s co-founders include retired Fourth Circuit judge J Michael Luttig, attorney George Conway, and former GOP Representative Barbara Comstock

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Trump called for "termination" of the Constitution, and more than 2 dozen @chkbal members issue condemnation Signers include former GOP senior officials and former GOP Congressmembers

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"People question how exactly the retribution would take place. Because, after all, Trump is going to have to go through the Justice Dept. So the Justice Dept. will be—along with the Defense Dept. and the intelligence community—bearing the brunt of the retribution presidency."

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From @chkbal 's own Peter Keisler: "Although the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech limits ... criminal prosecutions and tort suits, it does not limit any of the separate removal and disqualification powers conferred by the Constitution."

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Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Mean What Trump’s Lawyers Want It to Mean

The First Amendment does not limit the removal and disqualification powers conferred on Congress by the Constitution.

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Last week we brought together hundreds of lawyers, legal scholars, law students & concerned citizens for the first Rule of Law Summit in DC! Thanks to our speakers: @judgeluttig , @BarbaraComstock , @gtconway3d , @HeathMayo , @DonaldAyer6 , @stuartmgerson , @acraul & more

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