Michael Luttig was for 12 years a judge of the United States Court of Appeals fo rthe Fourth Circuit.
He retired in 2006 to become General Counsel of Boeing Corp, a position he held until 2019.
In a piece in The Atlantic he warns of Trump - The End of the Rule of Law in America
The president of the United States appears to have long ago forgotten that Americans fought the Revolutionary War not merely to secure their independence from the British monarchy but to establish a government of laws, not of men, so that they and future generations of Americans would never again be subject to the whims of a tyrannical king. As Thomas Paine wrote in Common Sense in 1776, “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.”
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