{"id":115095,"date":"2025-04-16T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/16\/conservative-judge-doesnt-pull-punches\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T16:03:00","slug":"conservative-judge-doesnt-pull-punches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/16\/conservative-judge-doesnt-pull-punches\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Judge Doesn\u2019t Pull Punches"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/GettyImages-1778382010.jpg?resize=594%2C396&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85494\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by Brendan McDermid-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe President of the United States of America is at war with the Constitution and the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 J. Michael Luttig, former Fourth Circuit judge and conservative legal luminary, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RpsAgainstTrump\/status\/1911957003276009669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in remarks on MSNBC<\/a>. \u201cAll of us could have predicted this day would come,\u201d Judge Luttig continued, noting that Trump, both personally and through his administration, has been openly hostile and contemptuous of the federal judiciary for some time. The open defiance of the Supreme Court\u2019s unanimous order that the administration must act to\u00a0\u201c\u2018facilitate\u2019 Abrego Garcia\u2019s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador,\u201d marks uncharted territory in this conflict.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/conservative-judge-doesnt-pull-punches\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conservative Judge Doesn\u2019t Pull Punches<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/11\/GettyImages-1778382010.jpg?resize=594%2C396&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85494\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by Brendan McDermid-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe President of the United States of America is at war with the Constitution and the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 J. Michael Luttig, former Fourth Circuit judge and conservative legal luminary, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RpsAgainstTrump\/status\/1911957003276009669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in remarks on MSNBC<\/a>. \u201cAll of us could have predicted this day would come,\u201d Judge Luttig continued, noting that Trump, both personally and through his administration, has been openly hostile and contemptuous of the federal judiciary for some time. The open defiance of the Supreme Court\u2019s unanimous order that the administration must act to\u00a0\u201c\u2018facilitate\u2019 Abrego Garcia\u2019s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador,\u201d marks uncharted territory in this conflict.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Brendan McDermid-Pool\/Getty Images) \u201cThe President of the United States of America is at war with the Constitution and the rule of law.\u201d \u2014 J. Michael Luttig, former Fourth Circuit judge and conservative legal luminary, in remarks on MSNBC. \u201cAll of us could have predicted this day would come,\u201d Judge Luttig continued, noting that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-1778382010-1RwvT8.jpeg?fit=594%2C396&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}