On the night of 4 January, Luttig received a call from old friend Richard Cullen, who was working as a lawyer for Pence. Cullen explained that John Eastman, who had previously clerked for Luttig, was making the claim that Pence had the constitutional authority to stop certification of the election results.

Luttig told Cullen to advise Pence that this was flat wrong and further set out his views on Twitter: “The only responsibility and power of the Vice-President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the electoral college votes as they have been cast.”

On January 6 a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol and demanded that Pence be hanged, leaving a trail of death, destruction and excrement, but the results got certified all the same.

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    Exactly. If you're I'm not happy that people in your party are copying Nazis, but refuse to denounce them, guess what? You're a Nazi also. Maybe you're a Nazi who is willing to oppose this in as mild a manner as possible that doesn't lose you political power, but that's not really a good distinction.

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      your the following orders type nazi (not you i mean the individual you are hypothetically talking about) in that situation.