Luttig: Pence obeying Trump on Jan. 6 would have created ‘constitutional crisis’

Published June 16, 2022 12:00am ET



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Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig on Thursday told the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol that had Vice President Mike Pence acquiesced to President Donald Trump’s demand to declare him the victor of the 2020 election despite his loss, it would have prompted “the first constitutional crisis since the founding of the republic.”

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