The interview with Judge Luttig was really interesting but Charlie definitely pulled some punches.
For one, Luttig is a Scalia fanboy, but anyone with a legal education who isn't a member of the Federalist society (which incidentally still proudly features traitor John Eastman on its website as a member) knows that Scalia's "originalist" …
The interview with Judge Luttig was really interesting but Charlie definitely pulled some punches.
For one, Luttig is a Scalia fanboy, but anyone with a legal education who isn't a member of the Federalist society (which incidentally still proudly features traitor John Eastman on its website as a member) knows that Scalia's "originalist" interpretation of the Constitution was always highly selective, and often absurdly cruel (for example when he issued a minority opinion on a DEATH PENALTY case, arguing that the accused only have a right to a fair trial, and that the Constitution does not prevent the State from executing factually innocent people as long as they received a fair trial). It would have been nice for Charlie to have perhaps grilled Luttig on how Scalia's disingenous jurisprudential legacy is now being wholy adopted by SCOTUS to reverse 40 years of civil rights in the current Scalia-like extremism in the Republican majority on the court.
Second, how on earth did Charlie fail to ask a single question of Luttig about Eastman or Cruz, two people that he HIRED and mentored as clerks, the former of which was the legal engineer for Trump's coup attempt, the latter of whom was one of the Senators who objected to certifying the election results AFTER the insurrection attempt on January 6.
You know who did grill him on those connections? The January 6 committee.
Imagine for a second that, say Hitler's and Goebel's mentor had been the same person, and Hitler had been stopped in his tracks after the Reichtag fire.
It would be journalistic malfeasance not to drill their mentor on their role in radicalizing those fascist.
Charlie's interview was frankly tone deaf. He makes Luttig out to be a hero, when it's pretty damn clear that whatever judicial philosophy and conservative perspective he has, ended up influencing some very evil folks to do bad things.
The interview with Judge Luttig was really interesting but Charlie definitely pulled some punches.
For one, Luttig is a Scalia fanboy, but anyone with a legal education who isn't a member of the Federalist society (which incidentally still proudly features traitor John Eastman on its website as a member) knows that Scalia's "originalist" interpretation of the Constitution was always highly selective, and often absurdly cruel (for example when he issued a minority opinion on a DEATH PENALTY case, arguing that the accused only have a right to a fair trial, and that the Constitution does not prevent the State from executing factually innocent people as long as they received a fair trial). It would have been nice for Charlie to have perhaps grilled Luttig on how Scalia's disingenous jurisprudential legacy is now being wholy adopted by SCOTUS to reverse 40 years of civil rights in the current Scalia-like extremism in the Republican majority on the court.
Second, how on earth did Charlie fail to ask a single question of Luttig about Eastman or Cruz, two people that he HIRED and mentored as clerks, the former of which was the legal engineer for Trump's coup attempt, the latter of whom was one of the Senators who objected to certifying the election results AFTER the insurrection attempt on January 6.
You know who did grill him on those connections? The January 6 committee.
Imagine for a second that, say Hitler's and Goebel's mentor had been the same person, and Hitler had been stopped in his tracks after the Reichtag fire.
It would be journalistic malfeasance not to drill their mentor on their role in radicalizing those fascist.
Charlie's interview was frankly tone deaf. He makes Luttig out to be a hero, when it's pretty damn clear that whatever judicial philosophy and conservative perspective he has, ended up influencing some very evil folks to do bad things.