Michael Luttig a conservative retired federal judge and key adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence declared on Wednesday that there is no Republican Party to counter the Democratic Party in the country . The retired judge also sought to shoot down possible legal defenses that Trump could mount to address the federal charges to which he has pleaded not guilty . The former judge said that by charging Trump with criminal offenses of conduct not speech special counsel Jack Smith ensures that there could not be a First Amendment defense from Trumps legal team . The evidence is overwhelming that the former president knew full well that he had lost the election. And the standard will be could a reasonable person have believed otherwise in the face of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary in the . contrary . The judge on the th US Circuit Court of Appeals was a key witness at the January committee hearings last year and said he views Trump as a danger even more so today than when he testified last year . He was known as one of the top feeder judges on the court of appeals level sending of his clerks to clerks to clerk for Supreme Court justices on the high court . He also said he was one of . his clerks for the Supreme Court Justice John Eastman who drafted the pointbypoint memo claiming Pence could stop the certification on January was also a . Trump ally and attorney John . Eastman was also . Luttigs guidance when he decided to defy Trump and certify the election results of the election on January . Pence . Pence was also an attorney for Lutig . Lutrig. The former Judge Luttrig. He said he said he had been an attorney and said that he was an expert and that he believed that he would be an expert in the election certification . He said that there was no such
Ex-federal judge and prominent conservative: ‘There is no Republican Party’ Ex
