Luttig testified Thursday that Pence blocking Congress from certifying the vote count would have been “the first constitutional crisis since the founding of the Republic.”
Luttig was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush, and served on the court until his retirement in 2006.in the White House under multiple GOP presidents, serving at the Justice Department during George H.W. Bush’s presidency and as assistant counsel at the White House from 1981 to 1982, when Ronald Reagan was president.
He also served as a law clerk for conservative-leaning Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and as a clerk and special assistant to Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative-leaning justice who was appointed by President Richard Nixon.at Boeing and Coca-Cola after stepping down from the Fourth Circuit.