Conservative retired judge says Trump ‘corroded and corrupted American democracy’

J. Michael Luttig:

Any leader, Republican or Democrat, who has not spoken against January 6 and the former president’s role in it has betrayed their oath.

January 6 and what the former president did is not politics. And it certainly is not partisan politics. This is far above and beyond politics.

And, as we now know, it’s literally crimes against the United States of America. But all of our politicians, and especially the Republicans, have regarded it as nothing more than politics. In that respect, they have failed Americans. It’s critical to American democracy that you have two very strong political parties who are competing against each other on the issues, the public policy issues before the nation.

We can’t have one party who is supporting and defending what occurred on January 6, together with the president of the United States who caused January 6. We can’t have that. We cannot function until the Republican Party comes to its senses.

And, in my view, I don’t consider the Republican Party a political party in the United States at the moment.