Cleta Mitchell. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)

(CNSNews.com) – Conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell said on Friday that Barack Obama has acted more like a dictator than a president, and that President-elect Donald Trump should make it a priority to “restore the rule of law.”

“We have been living under a dictatorial tyrant for the last eight years,” Mitchell said at the Conservative Women’s Network event, co-hosted by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute and the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

“And one of the most important things that Donald Trump can do as president is to restore the rule of law,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell and others on the panel -- Diana Furchtgott-Roth, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and Trump advisor; Tracie Sharp, president and CEO at the State Policy Network; and Jennifer Marshall, vice president for the Institute for Family, Community and Opportunity at the Heritage Foundation – all spoke about what they hoped would be the priorities of the Trump administration, including repealing and replacing Obamacare, reducing taxes, and rolling back federal regulations across multiple agencies.

“As an attorney I’m going to tell you that the most important thing that Donald Trump can do … and that is to restore the rule of law in America,” said Mitchell, who has represented the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, the National Rifle Association and many Republican members of the U.S. Congress.

“America is a nation of laws, not of men,” Mitchell said. “But what we’ve seen in the last eight years is a president with a cell phone and a pen who has made law as though he were an emperor and a complicit liberal media that has found that completely acceptable.”

President-elect Donald J. Trump. (AP)

Mitchell said if Trump were to govern with a cell phone and a pen his critics would accuse him of acting as a dictator. But it is Obama, Mitchell said, who has conducted the office of the presidency in that manner.

“We have been living under a dictatorial tyrant for the last eight years,” Mitchell said. “And one of the most important things that Donald Trump can do as president is to restore the rule of law.”