'Imminent danger to America': Conservative judge says Constitution must disqualify Trump

Conservative former federal Judge Michael Luttig warned on Friday's edition of MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" that former President Donald Trump is an ongoing threat to the constitutional order, and reiterated that he must be barred from returning to office.

This comes after longtime Trump adviser Steve Bannon was revealed in a new book to openly profess Trump's choice to hold a campaign rally in Waco, Texas was a direct dog whistle to embolden far-right antigovernment extremists.

"I want to ask you one more question about a story we covered this week in Jon Karl's new book," said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "He talked about Steve Bannon talking about the 'Trump-Davidians.' What's the threat, as you see it today?"

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"As I said before to you, Nicolle, the former president and his allies were a clear and present danger to American democracy," said Luttig, long considered to be one of the fathers of the modern conservative legal movement. "A year later, I was asked by Michael Schmidt of The New York Times, and I said one year after January 6th that the former president and his allies were an even graver danger to American democracy than they were a year prior."

"Most recently I've said now, two and a half years thence, that the former president is a clear and present danger — an imminent danger to American democracy today."

Luttig, along with retired Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe, are two of the most prominent legal voices arguing that the 14th Amendment necessarily disqualifies Trump from office, due to his alleged participation in "insurrection" against the United States — a legal theory now being tested in state-level court cases.

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