Conservative Former Judge Blames Lawyers For January 6 Insurrection
The judge went on to call the lawyers' behavior leading up to January 6 'indefensible and inexcusable.'
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I doubt that January 6 would have ever occurred had it not been for the enabling of that effort by lawyers of the legal profession, and they were some of the finest lawyers and constitutional lawyers in the country. So where did they go wrong?
— Retired federal appellate judge J. Michael Luttig, in comments given during an American Bar Association event, on the inflammatory role that lawyers played during the January 6 insurrection. The former Fourth Circuit judge continued, saying that the lawyers involved “tried to [use] technical law to support the president of the United States in overturning an election that he had lost fair and square,” and that it was “indefensible and inexcusable.”
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