{"id":2327055,"date":"2024-08-19T18:40:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prominent-conservative-legal-scholar-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T18:42:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:42:11","slug":"prominent-conservative-legal-scholar-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prominent-conservative-legal-scholar-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent conservative legal scholar endorses Kamala Harris for president &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprominent-conservative-legal-scholar-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2327055&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Retired federal\u200d appellate Judge\u2063 J. Michael Luttig has publicly\u2063 endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rand-paul-offers-dr-rachel-levine-as-example-of-radical-agenda-riding-bidens-coattails\/\" title=\"Sen. Rand Paul Offers Dr. Rachel Levine As Example Of Radical Agenda Riding Biden\u2019s Coattails\">upcoming presidential election<\/a>, \u200dmarking \u200chis first-ever vote for \u2063a Democrat. Appointed by former President\u2062 George H.W. Bush, Luttig,\u200b a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pollak-five-key-points-from-ketanji-brown-jacksons-tough-day-in-the-senate\/\" title=\"Pollak: Five Key Points from Ketanji Brown Jackson&#039;s Tough Day in the Senate\">conservative jurist<\/a> for over 15 years, criticized former President Donald Trump,\u200b stating that \u2064support\u200d for Harris is a defense of democracy\u200c and the Constitution. He expressed his disillusionment with Trump\u200d following the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots, asserting\u2063 that\u200b this event posed a significant threat to American democracy. Luttig emphasized the \u2063importance of a peaceful transfer \u200bof \u200dpower and\u2063 highlighted that the 2024 \u200belection could only be safeguarded by supporting Harris. His endorsement comes just before \u200dthe Democratic National Convention,\u2063 where the party is expected to unite behind Harris.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Prominent conservative legal scholar endorses Kamala Harris for president<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1731650\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Retired federal appellate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/judge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Judge<\/a> J. Michael Luttig threw his support behind Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> on Monday, signaling the first time the judge will vote for a Democrat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Appointed by former President George H.W. Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, Luttig served as a conservative jurist for about 15 years before leaving the bench in 2006 to serve as general counsel for Boeing. The veteran of two Republican administrations chastised former President Donald Trump in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/19\/politics\/conservative-republican-endorses-harris-calls-trump-a-threat-to-democracy\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>statement<\/a> to CNN as he announced unwavering support for Harris.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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&rsquo;s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law,&rdquo; Luttig <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/25050952-luttig-endorsement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told<\/a> the outlet. &ldquo;As a result, I will unhesitatingly vote for the Democratic Party&rsquo;s candidate for the Presidency of the United States, Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Luttig claimed Trump lost his support after the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol. He made his endorsement on the eve of the first night of the Democratic National Convention, where the Democratic Party is set to rally around Harris.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Retired U.S. Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig, right, who was an informal adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, walks to a hearing room with his wife, Elizabeth Luttig, during a break in a House select committee hearing investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Almost four years ago now, on January 6, 2021, a stake was driven through the heart of America&rsquo;s Democracy, and on that day American Democracy was left teetering on a knife&rsquo;s edge,&rdquo; the former judge wrote. &ldquo;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 &mdash; for the first time in the almost 250 years since the Founding of the Nation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After results showed Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, the GOP leader claimed, without evidence, that the election was stolen from him. Alleging voter fraud and citing concerns over mail-in ballot policies in swing states, Trump made a speech to supporters in Washington, D.C., and urged his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a>, Mike Pence, not to certify the results of the election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Luttig pleaded with Pence and appeared to be instrumental in convincing him to certify the results through a series of posts on X.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the electoral college votes as they have been cast.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; @judgeluttig (@judgeluttig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/judgeluttig\/status\/1346469787329646592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;As the former US Court of Appeals Judge J. Michael Luttig observed, &lsquo;[t]he only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the Electoral College votes as they have been cast,&rsquo;&rdquo; Pence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/01\/06\/politics\/pence-trump-electoral-college-letter\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>wrote<\/a> as he explained why he would certify the election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although Trump has argued that he played no role in inciting the protest at the Capitol, pointing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media posts<\/a> he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1346912780700577792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>made<\/a> calling for &ldquo;no violence&rdquo; and urging supporters to &ldquo;remain peaceful,&rdquo; he failed to convince Luttig.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law &amp; Order &ndash; respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1346912780700577792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On Monday, Luttig continued to claim Jan. 6 was &ldquo;the war on America&rsquo;s Democracy that was instigated by the former president and his allies.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luttig has also become an outspoken critic of Trump over the various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/weve-identified-450000-ballots-that-miraculously-only-have-a-vote-for-joe-biden-sidney-powell-drops-a-bomb-on-sunday-morning-futures-video\/\" title=\"&quot;We&#039;ve Identified 450,000 Ballots that Miraculously ONLY have a Vote for Joe Biden&quot; - Sidney Powell Drops a BOMB on Sunday Morning Futures (Video)\">legal battles<\/a> the former president faces in court.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump has bludgeoned America into submission to his will over the will of the Constitution and the American people. It&rsquo;s just that plain and that simple,&rdquo; Luttig told&nbsp;MSNBC&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>Deadline White House<\/em> earlier this year. &ldquo;The only way to break that is through the rule of law &hellip; until or unless the courts of the United States apply the rule of law to Donald Trump, I don&rsquo;t see a way out of the predicament that the country finds itself in today.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1731650\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1731650\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned conservative legal expert backs Kamala Harris for president. Retired federal appellate Judge J. Michael Luttig announced his support for Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, marking the first occasion he will cast a vote for a Democrat. Luttig, who was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit by former President George H.W. Bush, served as a conservative judge for approximately 15 years before stepping down in 2006 to become Boeing&#8217;s general counsel. In a statement to CNN, he criticized former President Donald Trump while expressing his steadfast support for Harris: \u201cIn the upcoming presidential election of 2024, there is only one political party and one candidate that can truly be seen as defenders of America\u2019s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law,\u201d Luttig stated. \u201cTherefore, I will confidently vote for Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party\u2019s nominee.\u201d He indicated that Trump lost his backing following the January 6 Capitol protests and made this endorsement just before the Democratic National Convention commenced its support rally for Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Luttig reflected on January 6th as a pivotal moment when &#8220;a stake was driven through America&#8217;s Democracy,&#8221; noting it marked an unprecedented failure in transferring power peacefully after an election in nearly 250 years since America&#8217;s founding. After Trump lost to President Joe Biden in 2020, he falsely claimed that voter fraud had stolen him victory and pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence not to certify Biden&#8217;s win during a speech to supporters in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, Luttig urged Pence through social media posts emphasizing that it was Pence&#8217;s constitutional duty to count electoral votes accurately\u2014a point Pence later reiterated when explaining his decision to certify Biden&#8217;s victory.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Trump&#8217;s claims of having no role in inciting violence at the Capitol\u2014pointing out his calls for peace\u2014Luttig remained unconvinced by these assertions. On Monday, he reiterated his belief that January 6 represented &#8220;the war on America\u2019s Democracy instigated by Trump and his allies.&#8221; Additionally, Luttig has been vocal against Trump regarding various legal issues facing him: \u201cDonald Trump has coerced America into submission against both our Constitution and its people,\u201d he remarked earlier this year on MSNBC\u2019s Deadline White House program. He emphasized that until U.S courts enforce rule of law upon Trump, finding resolution from current national predicaments seems unlikely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2327056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Michael-Luttig-.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4914,13348,32438,38607],"class_list":["post-2327055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-conservative","tag-endorsement","tag-kamala-harris","tag-legal-scholar"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Michael-Luttig-.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}