A former U.S. Court of Appeals judge who played a critical role in the Jan. 6 committee hearings said he is confident that a potential criminal conviction of former President Donald Trump would be upheld by the Supreme Court.
A former U.S. Court of Appeals judge who played a critical role in the Jan. 6 committee hearings said he is confident that a potential criminal conviction of former President Donald Trump would be upheld by the Supreme Court and any judge would have no choice but to sentence Trump to federal prison.
Luttig, who for years was considered one of the leading conservative jurists in the country and who testified last summer as a star witness in the committee’s hearings, also said that he sees “poetic justice” in the panel’s investigation. In particular, he singled out the work of Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.
Luttig, in more detail than he has before, also explained his own personal evolution. He had been “alarmed” by Trump’s conduct ever since Trump announced his campaign for the presidency in 2015, and he was “deeply troubled throughout the entire Trump administration.” But Luttig didn’t go public until January 2021, after his wife of 41 years, Elizabeth, began pressing him to “do something” to make sure Trump left office.
Then “she pled with me the night of January 4th, as we went to bed,” he said. “My wife said, ‘Mike, you must stop this.’ And I said, ‘Elizabeth, there's nothing at all that I can do. I’m sorry.’”
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