On this Election Day 2024, in a letter organized by the American Bar Association’s Task Force for American Democracy, 125 current and past presidents of the nation’s state, local, and national bar associations put lawyers on notice of their professional obligations when filing challenges to today’s election. The bar presidents specifically remind the legal profession of the lawyers who filed lawsuits challenging the 2020 election who were disbarred or disciplined for filing challenges that were not based on fact and supported by law.

The former president is not a Republican or a conservative.

Especially after Donald Trump’s disgusting comments about Liz Cheney, and after the performance at his rally in Madison Square Garden, I expect that Americans -– especially the women of America -- will elect Kamala Harris the President of the United States tomorrow.

David French this morning in The New York Times:

“My alarm is rooted more in the kind of democracy we’ll have than whether we’ll have any kind of democracy at all. I’m perhaps more persuaded by a different, far less catchy slogan: the rule of law is on the ballot." "If Trump wins and exempts himself and many thousands of his supporters from legal accountability, it’s more like America will have something like royal justice, where accountability exists for all but a ruthless ruling class."

The Honorable Thomas B. Griffith of the United States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (ret.): “I yearn for the day when traditional conservatives argued that character counts in our political leaders, and that the example leaders set is even more important than the policies they pursue.”

For me, and I would like to believe for all Americans, the essential — and dispositive — difference between the two candidates for the presidency comes down to this. Vice President Kamala Harris is the only candidate who can be trusted to honor a president’s sacred obligations to America’s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law.

The Vice President yesterday, campaigning with Republicans in Pennsylvania:

In a memorable event Tuesday evening, the National Constitution Center awarded the Liberty Medal to America’s storyteller, Ken Burns. In the conversation between Jeffrey Rosen and Ken Burns that followed the NCC President and CEO’s Award of the Liberty Medal to Ken, Ken told what has to be the greatest story of America from the Founding to the present day ever told.

The Honorable Alberto Gonzalez, former Attorney General of the United States and White House Counsel to President George W. Bush, endorses Vice President Kamala Harris this morning, in a full article in @politico @POLITICOMag @playbookdc “There are many lawyers who served in Republican administrations who share my concerns about the Republican nominee. All of us in the legal profession have a special obligation to abide by and to protect the rule of law. It is part of our oath to support the Constitution."

At least as deployed in this essay, this is political and moral sophistry. Mr. Lowry's is no one’s definition of “character.” No one has ever defined “character” as “Not character in the sense of a candidate’s personal life, but [instead] the attributes that play into the question of whether someone is suited to the presidency —

I am "gifting" from this morning's New York Times, David French's compelling piece "To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris." If ever there was a "must read."

@nytimes,@nytopinion, @DavidAFrench:

nytimes.com/2024/08/11/opi… "The only real hope for restoring a conservatism that values integrity, demonstrates real compassion and defends our foundational constitutional principles isn’t to try to make the best of Trump, a man who values only himself."

The American Bar Association House of Delegates just passed a policy adopting the "Statement of Principles to Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Constitution, the Rule of Law, and American Democracy" of the Society for the Rule of Law! Thank you, ABA President Mary Smith for your leadership, and your commitment and courage in defending and supporting America's Democracy and Rule of Law. Thank you, ABA and ABA House of Delegates. And congratulations, Society for the Rule of Law!

I commend for reading and thoughtful consideration by every American the proceedings of the American Bar Association's Democracy Summit, the Statement by the ABA's Task Force for American Democracy, and especially the embedded video of Task Force Co-Chair and former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson's closing remarks at the Summit, where he quotes the timeless words of Dr. Martin Luther King -- as apt today for the challenges facing American Democracy as they were when Dr. King spoke them years ago in the context of civil rights:

I apologize. That was not my full post. The full post is as follows. I support a constitutional amendment that would repudiate the Supreme Court’s faithless decision in Trump v. United States and restore the animating principle of our Nation and of our Constitution that no man is above the law, least of all the President of the United States.

We are so grateful to Mika and Joe for having George Conway, Barbara Comstock, and me on Morning Joe this morning to discuss the Society for the Rule of Law’s “Statement of Principles to Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Constitution, the Rule of Law, and American Democracy.” America's Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law are the issues of our times.

I rarely disagree with the brilliant @DavidAFrench, but I do disagree to these extents with his otherwise damning criticism of the Supreme Court’s decisions in both Trump v. United States and Anderson v. Trump. There were not “legitimate reasons to worry about rogue prosecutions or rogue efforts to knock candidates from ballots” of presidents and former presidents for having attempted to overturn an American presidential election,

It is cruel irony that the Supreme Court issued its abominable decision in Trump v. United States three days before this Independence Day 2024. The American Revolution was fought in order that Americans would secure our nation’s independence from the British monarchy and its then-ruling King George III and could establish its own system of constitutional self-government in which no man -- last of all the President of the United States -- would be above the law.

In these perilous times for America’s Democracy and Rule of Law, there could hardly be anything more important than that we Americans recommit ourselves to our Democracy and the Rule of Law. Were he here today, Abraham Lincoln might say that America is in desperate need of a revival around the Constitution and the Rule of Law, if ever it has been.

The full quote that I gave to @jodikantor of the New York Times was as follows: “I have long said that Supreme Court Justices, their spouses, and their families should conduct themselves in all ways and at all times such that they are beyond reproach. The honor of serving the nation on the Supreme Court requires nothing less than this,

As with the three-hour argument in Trump v. Anderson, a disconcertingly precious little of the two-hour argument today was even devoted to the specific and only question presented for decision. The Court and the parties discussed everything but the specific question presented.

The Nation is witnessing the determined delegitimization of both its Federal and State judiciaries and the systematic dismantling of its system of justice and Rule of Law by a single man – the former President of the United States. In the months ahead, the former president can only be expected to ramp up his unprecedented efforts to delegitimize the courts of the United States, the nation’s state courts, and America’s system of justice,

Professor Laurence Tribe @tribelaw and I have written this essay on the Supreme Court's decision in Anderson v. Trump, which @TheAtlantic has just posted. "Whether born of a steeled determination not to disqualify the presumptive Republican nominee from the presidency, or of a debilitating fear of even deciding whether the Constitution disqualifies the presumptive Republican nominee

My thoughts about the Supreme Court’s decision today, with CNN’s Jake Tapper just now.

The ruling is astonishing and unprecedented, not for its decision of the exceedingly narrow — and only — question presented (though, significantly, four of the Justices agreed only with the “result” of that decision, and not with its reasoning)