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Former federal judge Michael Luttig, considered to be one of the intellectual founders of the modern conservative legal movement, has unveiled a new organization he co-founded with fellow conservative lawyers George Conway and Barbara Comstock, the Society for the Rule of Law Institute, which is intended to be a counterbalance to the Federalist Society's embrace of former President Donald Trump and what he sees as its abandonment of democratic ideals.

Speaking to MSNBC's Alicia Menendez on Tuesday, Luttig outlined the political and legal environment in which he believes this organization is needed.

"Talk to me about the damage that you believe has been done to the judicial system and to the legal profession," said Menendez....

A second presidential term for Donald Trump would be both "regrettable" and "catastrophic" to American democracy.

That's according to retired judge J. Michael Luttig who spoke candidly with NBC' News' Jordan Rubin on the "Deadline: Legal Blog."

It is Luttig's belief that the 45th president and his GOP allies "instigated a war on American democracy on Jan. 6" when MAGA-sympathetic mobs engaged in a riot and stormed the Capital to thwart Congressional efforts to certify the 2020 presidential election results in then President-Elect Joe Biden's favor. ...

Donald Trump's legal argument that he can't be charged in the D.C. elections criminal case because he was president at the time doesn't hold water, according to Republicans who served in five different GOP administrations.

Trump recently filed a motion to dismiss in the election subversion case, which is being prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith and overseen by Judge Tanya Chutkan. In his motion, the former president argued that he has presidential immunity protecting him from prosecution—essentially saying he can't be touched for anything.

Former federal prosecutors argued that Trump's filing was aimed at conservative Supreme Court attorneys, and that it was essentially a bid to turn "U.S. presidents into kings."...