Elections have consequences, as the saying goes, and so do backroom deals made in place of elections to choose our political leaders, writes Clarence Page.
J. Michael Luttig, a retired U.S. Appeals Court judge, departs on June 16, 2022, after testifying before a hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol in Washington.Former Nixon aide John Dean comes to mind. His declaration during the Watergate hearings of “a cancer growing on the presidency” stands out as a pivotal moment that helped grease President Richard Nixon’s slide from office to early retirement.
Yet, he has earned respect across party lines in the way Washington’s “wise men” from both parties used to in less-polarized times. That’s important at a time when the Jan. 6 committee itself struggles against perceptions of partisan unfairness. After several states submitted competing slates of electors that year, a divided Congress was unable to resolve the deadlock for weeks. The result, as you may recall from history classes, was the Compromise of 1877, an unwritten handshake deal that, among other consequences, resulted in the federal government pulling its last post-Civil War troops out of the South and ending the Reconstruction Era.
Passed 10 years after Hayes-Tilden, the Electoral Count Act established a formal counting procedure. But the law is so vaguely worded that Trump adviser John Eastman apparently thought Pence could use it to invalidate Biden’s victory.
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