Conservative Judge Warns of Constitutional Crisis After Midterms

SARAH SILBIGER / REUTERS A former conservative federal judge has sounded the alarm on the possibility of Republicans carrying out “another Jan.

6” after the midterm elections.

Judge J.

Michael Luttig, who was nominated by former President George H.

W.

Bush to serve on the U.S.

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, tore into the GOP and President Donald Trump in a scathing op-ed for The New Republic warning of “The Final Battle for America’s Democracy.” Luttig, 72, said a “catastrophic end” for American democracy could come on Jan.

3, 2027—the start of a brand new House.

“Today’s congressional Republicans took a blood oath six years ago not just to put their party before their country, but to put Donald Trump before their country,” he wrote.

“And so it is that only weeks before the midterm elections, House Republicans have already sworn their allegiance to Donald Trump and doomed the U.S. to another Jan.

6 next Jan.

3.” “So unalterably subjugated to Trump is today’s Republican House that even a decisive victory for Democrats and a resounding repudiation of Trump and the MAGA Republicans at the polls in November will not guarantee that a Democratic majority-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress on Jan.

3,” he continued.

Luttig predicted that congressional Republicans would refuse to seat Democratic members-elect, triggering a legal battle that could work its way up to the Supreme Court.