Prominent conservative lawyers band together to fight Trump threat

George Conway, J Michael Luttig and Barbara Comstock create new legal group to ‘speak out against the endless stream of falsehoods’

Three prominent US legal thinkers have announced a new organisation to champion conservative legal theory within the rule of law, to fight the threat of a second Donald Trump term.

“Our country comes first,” the three wrote in the New York Times, “and our country is in a constitutional emergency, if not a constitutional crisis. We all must act accordingly, especially us lawyers.”

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