January 6th Committee Opens Latest Hearing With Focus On How Donald Trump Pressured — And “Turned The Mob” — On Mike Pence

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UPDATE: J. Michael Luttig, a retired judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals, said that if Mike Pence went with Donald Trump’s orders to reject the electoral vote count for Joe Biden it “would have plunged America into what I believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis in America.” Luttig, a conservative judge and informal adviser to Pence, said that it “would have been the first constitutional crisis since the founding of the republic.”Greg Jacob, who was Pence’s counsel, said that the vice president’s “first instinct” was that he did not have the authority to do what Trump wanted him to do.

He said that they studied constitutional text, the Electoral Count Act and historical precedent that confirmed the vice president’s view.The committee has been focusing on the role of John Eastman, an attorney who wrote up a memo that laid out how Pence could reject the electors on the grounds that in seven states, there were dueling “slates of electors” for Trump in seven states.

But Cheney argued that Eastman was aware when he wrote the memo that such an argument was false, as he had written an email in December, 2020, that such a slate of electors, not certified by the states, would be “dead on arrival” in Congress.PREVIOUSLY: The January 6th Commission, once again getting the spotlight from broadcast and cable networks for its latest hearing, focused its attention on the pressure that President Donald Trump placed on Vice President Mike Pence to reject the electoral vote count in favor of Joe Biden on January 6.“Donald Trump wanted mike pence to do something no Vice President has ever done,” said the committee’s chairman, Rep.