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David Smith in Washington

John Roberts criticized by conservative ex-judge for ‘unforgivable reticence’ about Trump

An older man sitting at a table in front of a microphone with a crowd behind him
J Michael Luttig at hearings on the US Capitol attack in Washington DC in June 2022. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

J Michael Luttig, a conservative former federal judge, has said how he is “disappointed” in his friend John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States, for an “unforgivable reticence” about Donald Trump.

Luttig was long considered a possible supreme court nominee himself. He shepherded Clarence Thomas through his contentious supreme court confirmation hearing in 1991 and was a mentor to the Texas senator Ted Cruz.

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