Conservative Judge Announces Endorsement of Kamala Harris — Cites Trump’s ‘Defiance of America’s Democracy’

Retired conservative Judge J. Michael Luttig on Monday announced he will “unhesitatingly” vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming election.

Luttig was nominated by then-President George H.W. Bush for the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1991 and served until 2006. Despite having never voted for a Democrat, Luttig announced in a multi-page statement obtained by CNN that Donald Trump’s “defiance of America’s Democracy” made him unable to vote for the former president.

Almost four years ago now, on January 6, 2021, a stake was driven through the heart of America’s Democracy, and on that day American Democracy was left teetering on a knife’s edge. On that day, the prescribed day for choosing the American president, there was not a peaceful transfer of power in the United States of America — for the first time in the almost 250 years since the Founding of the Nation.

As a consequence of the former president’s continued denial of that appalling day, and his defiance of America’s Democracy to this day almost four years later, millions of Americans still believe that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from the former president, despite the fact that he lost that election fair and square in what has been proven over and over to have been the freest, fairest, and most accurate election in American history.

Because of the former president’s continued, knowingly false claims that he won the 2020 election, millions of Americans no longer have faith and confidence in our national elections, and many never will again.

Because of the former president’s knowingly false claims, many Americans — especially young Americans, tragically — have even begun to question whether constitutional democracy is the best form of self-government for America.

It’s not the first time Luttig has gone against his party. In the aftermath of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, he testified before the House Select Committee and blamed Trump for a “treacherous” plan to “steal America’s democracy.”

Further in his statement, he confirmed his endorsement of Harris.

America’s two political parties are the political guardians of American Democracy. Regrettably, in the presidential election of 2024 there is only one political party and one candidate for the presidency that can claim the mantle of defender and protector of America’s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law.

As a result, I will unhesitatingly vote for the Democratic Party’s candidate for the Presidency of the United States, Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris.

In voting for Vice President Harris, I assume that her public policy views are vastly different from my own, but I am indifferent in this election as to her policy views on any issues other than America’s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law, as I believe all Americans should be.

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