Anatomy of a tweet: The behind the scenes story of how retired federal judge Michael Luttig used Twitter to try to stop an insurrection
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Retired federal judge Michael Luttig never expected to jump into the heated fight over the certification of the 2020 presidential election. And he certainly never imagined he would end up using Twitter to help former Vice President Mike Pence defy then-President Donald Trump.
But on the night of January 4, while at his home in Colorado, Luttig got a call from an old friend, Richard Cullen, Pence's personal lawyer. Cullen had a simple request:
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