Source:PBS NewsHour– talking to retired Conservative U.S. Federal Judge Michael Luttig.

Source:The New Democrat

“An influential group of Republican legal voices called for a Jan. 2024 trial date to be set for Donald Trump for his attempt to overturn the presidential election. The group included former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Michael Luttig, a retired federal judge and one of the nation’s leading conservative legal minds. Judy Woodruff spoke with Luttig for her series, America at a Crossroads.”

From the PBS NewsHour

From Wikipedia

If you want to know why the so-called Republican Party, is not even a Republican Party today, let alone a conservative party, just listen to former U.S. Federal Judge Michael Luttig and listen to any so-called Republican who even struggles to criticize Donald Trump about anything, let alone to so-called Republicans who act like they’re blind, death, and braindead, every time they hear or see Donald Trump to or say anything that’s corrupt and authoritarian.

When I think of Conservative:

“Averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.

In a political context) favoring free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas.”

These definitions courtesy of Dictionary.com.

When I think of a Republican, I think of someone who believes:

“Though conceptually separate from democracy, republicanism included the key principles of rule by consent of the governed and sovereignty of the people. In effect, republicanism held that kings and aristocracies were not the real rulers, but rather the whole people were.”

From Wikipedia

What you hear Michael Luttig doing here, is defending key Republican values, like the rule of law, tradition, checks and balances, personal responsibility, and American democracy.

What you get from Donald Trump and his supporters, as well as Republicans who know better and who don’t technically like or respect the man and even see him as a threat to the American Republic, but who don’t have the political balls (to be frank) to admit it publicly, is that it’s not illegal or corrupt when Donald Trump does it. Or they act blind, death, or braindead, when Donald Trump does it.