An ex-judge who played a key role in the Trump-Pence feud in the fraught days during the 2020 election is speaking out for the first time.
Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig, a Republican, is testifying today at the Jan. 6th Committee Hearing and is expected to reveal the attempts by Trump to overturn a fair election.
It turns out, that this conservative judge was called for advice for the VP when Trump was asking Pence to overturn the election results and in turn, Luttig counseled the VP that he did not have the constitutional right to follow any of Trump’s deranged demands.
In his statement, Luttig condemned Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, saying Trump and his allies “instigated” a war on democracy “so that he could cling to power,” and said he believed democracy ‘came to the brink’ that day.
“It is breathtaking that these arguments even were conceived, let alone entertained by the President of the United States at that perilous moment in history,” Luttig wrote. “Had the Vice President of the United States obeyed the President of the United States, America would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis.”