J. Michael Luttig is one of the country’s best known conservative jurists who advised former vice president Mike Pence against overturning the electoral college vote after the 2020 election. On Wednesday, Aug. 9 at 1:00 p.m. ET, the former federal judge joins The Post’s editorial page editor David Shipley to discuss the Jan. 6 indictment against former president Donald Trump and how he sees the future of American democracy.
“The former president forced this indictment, this prosecution and this trial on the nation for his own selfish, personal and political ambitions. This indictment would've never come had Donald Trump not wanted it to come.“ - J. Michael Luttig
“This a weighty, weighty question in the federal court system, but I do believe that, in this one instance, in all of American history that this trial should be televised or otherwise accessible to the American people.” - J. Michael Luttig “This is a tragic day for America. And now this trial of this American president, together with the events of January 6 themselves, now become singularly infamous events in American history. The trial will be an embarrassing spectacle to the United States of America.
“It's to say nothing to say that this is unprecedented in all of history … There's never been anything like this in history and there never will be again. This is singularly related to one man, Donald J. Trump. But I am confident that this particular trial will be held before the election … This case, which is the single case of greatest significance to the United States of America, will proceed first and it will proceed before the election of 2024.” - J.
“For me, that day was the greatest intellectual and emotional experience in a life that’s been very intellectual and emotional. I understood the profound gravity of the moment … It dramatically changed my life. It’s not just changed it; now, for the rest of history my life will be defined and known only as beginning on January 5, 2021, … If that’s the only thing that’s ever known about me, I will be pleased and satisfied” - J.
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J. Michael Luttig and Laurence Tribe make the case for Trump’s disqualification from public officeIn a new article for The Atlantic, retired former federal judge J. Michael Luttig and top legal scholar Laurence Tribe make the case that the Constitution includes a provision that disqualifies Donald Trump from holding public office again. Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment is also known as the “disqualification clause.” It’s only two sentences long but it could doom Trump’s bid to return to the White House. The disqualification clause “forbids the former president from holding the office of the presidency again because of his conduct in and around January 6, 2021,” says Judge Luttig. And as Tribe points out, it’s not a sanction against an individual. “The framers of the 14th Amendment took great care not to treat this as a punishment … Nobody has a right to be president without meeting the qualifications.”
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