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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJudge Luttig's complete statement to Jan 6th Committee
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Editors note: The following is the statement of Judge Michael Luttig, submitted to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6, 2021, Attack on the United States Capitol on June 16, 2022, prior to Luttigs appearance before the Committee. We are reproducing it here in its entirety.
Honorable Members of the House Select Committee
A stake was driven through the heart of American democracy on January 6, 2021, and our democracy today is on a knifes edge.
America was at war on that fateful day, but not against a foreign power. She was at war against herself. We Americans were at war with each other over our democracy.
January 6 was but the next, foreseeable battle in a war that had been raging in America for years, though that day was the most consequential battle of that war even to date. In fact, January 6 was a separate war unto itself, a war for Americas democracy, a war irresponsibly instigated and prosecuted by the former president, his political party allies, and his supporters. Both wars are raging to this day.
A peaceful end to these wars is desperately needed. The war for our democracy could lead to the peaceful end to the war for Americas cultural heart and soul. But if a peaceful end to the war for Americas democracy is not achievable, there is little chance for a peaceful end to that war. The settlement of this war over our democracy is necessary to the settlement of any war that will ever come to America, whether from her shores or to her shores. Though disinclined for the moment, as a political matter of fact only the party that instigated this war over our democracy can bring an end to that war.
Like our war from a distant time, these twin wars are testing whether th[is] nation or any nation . . . so conceived in Liberty . . . can long endure. We must hope that January 6 was the final battle of at least the deadly war for Americas democracy.
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Judge Luttig's complete statement to Jan 6th Committee (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jun 2022
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LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)1. Great statement by Judge Luttig
choie
(4,111 posts)2. Great statement
terrible speaker.
tavernier
(12,392 posts)3. I wonder if he's recently had a stroke?
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)4. Indeed...
Poor guy looks like it's a challenge to speak in a steady stream. But what he says is important.
tavernier
(12,392 posts)5. They all (and I'm including media) seem to regard him
with the greatest respect and honor, so obviously he has deserved this recognition. Although his speech is slow, the content is clear, precise and factual.