Conservative Lawyers Warn of Constitutional Crisis if Trump Returns to Office

Prominent figures call for a new legal movement to defend democracy and the rule of law, forming the Society for the Rule of Law Institute.

Prominent conservative lawyers, including retired Judge J. Michael Luttig, attorney George Conway, and former Representative Barbara Comstock, have warned of a 'legal emergency' that threatens the Constitution, should former President Donald Trump return to the White House.
In an op-ed published in the New York Times, they expressed concern that Trump would fill his administration with people willing to circumvent existing laws and long-established legal norms if he were to be elected in 2024.
They criticized the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, for failing to speak out against Trump's actions and called for a new organization to support and defend American democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law.
The lawyers have formed a nonprofit organization, the Society for the Rule of Law Institute, to bring sanity back to conservative lawyering and jurisprudence.
The op-ed received support from some liberal legal scholars, including Laurence Tribe, who called for liberal lawyers to welcome conservative lawyers on their mission.