Mike Johnson’s plot to block new House majority starts with a single firing: ex-judge
A retired conservative federal judge says one personnel move by House Speaker Mike Johnson would tip off Americans to a scheme to override voters.
J. Michael Luttig, a former judge on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, told Jim Acosta on Tuesday's episode of "The Jim Acosta Show" that the warning sign is Johnson firing the clerk of the House and installing a loyalist before the 120th Congress convenes on January 3.
"If Mike Johnson fires the clerk and puts in his place a loyalist to Mike Johnson and the House Republicans and to Donald Trump, that will be the signal moment that will tell the American people that Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are going to try to refuse to seat Democrats-elect in the 120th Congress," Luttig said, adding that this "is where the whispers began and are getting louder by the day."...