president Donald Trump, and who had clerked for Luttig, met with vice president Mike Pence in the Oval Office to argue that the vice president had the constitutional authority to alter or otherwise change certified electoral votes for the presidential certification in Congress the next day. According to Eastman, he told the vice president that he might have the authority to reject electoral college votes, and he asked the vice president to delay the certification, a proposal which came to be known as the Pence Card. Pence rejected Eastman's argument and instead agreed with Luttig and another conservative scholar, John Yoo, that a vice president has no such constitutional authority. Pence released a letter on January 6 stating he would not attempt to intervene in the certification process, citing Luttig by name, who later said it was "the highest honor of my life" to be involved in preserving the Constitution. On June 16, 2022, Luttig testified during a televised hearing conducted by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack. Before the hearing, Luttig wrote a statement for the record, stating that Trump and his allies "instigated" a war on democracy "so that he could cling to power." He continued, "It is breathtaking that these arguments even were conceived, let alone entertained by the President of the United States at that perilous moment in history" and that January 6 "was the final fateful day for the execution of a well-developed plan by the former president to overturn the 2020 presidential election at any cost." At the close of the hearing, Luttig said: Luttig co-authored a 69-page report refuting 2020 election-fraud claims published in July 2022. See also List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Chief Justice) George W. Bush Supreme Court candidates References External links Luttig's resignation letter from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Opinion: The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election — April 27, 2022 The Frontline Interview: J. Michael Luttig — May 25, 2022 1954 births 20th-century American judges Boeing people Federalist Society members Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Lawyers from Washington, D.C. Living people Never Trump movement Texas lawyers Texas Republicans United States Assistant Attorneys General for the Office of Legal Counsel United States court of appeals judges appointed by George