[b]Why did this conservative US judge endorse Kamala Harris?[/b]

[AmericanMan1958]

J Michael Luttig has never endorsed a Democrat before. That’s no surprise since the well-respected legal scholar – a retired federal appeals court judge – leans well right of center.

Appointed by the first President Bush in 1991, Luttig is from the old school of the Republican party. He once worked in Ronald Reagan’s White House and served as a law clerk to Antonin Scalia.

But now, whatever his policy views or personal politics, Luttig has set them aside. He will pull the lever in November for Kamala Harris.

Luttig wrote a withering statement about Donald Trump as he explained his decision to endorse the Democratic rival of the former president and Republican presidential nominee: “In voting for Vice President Harris, I assume that her public policy views are vastly different from my own, but I am indifferent in this election on any issues other than America’s Democracy, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law, as I believe all Americans should be.”


Read More: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/21/conservative-judge-harris-endorsement

[elleng]

1. Simple, he is 'indifferent in this election on any issues other than America's Democracy, the Constitution,

and the Rule of Law, as I believe all Americans should be.” '

[LoisB]

2. I imagine he loves his country and democracy more than he loves his party.

[Jack Valentino]

3. At least a few Republicans can't go for a felon convicted on thirty-some counts....

Back in the "old days", this would have been a fifty state landslide against Trump!

Hell, Roosevelt, Johnson, Reagan, Clinton and Obama got landslides--
and they weren't even running against convicted felons!

It has become a strange political world now, which defies "Basic Presidential Election Politics 101"