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Congratulations on making it through yet another week with our reproductive rights and hopefully

our sanity somewhat intact.

Let's start with the biggest takeaways from yesterday's January Stick Committee

hearing, which was mostly about the pressure campaign specifically targeted at getting

Mike Pence to overturn the election.

Yesterday's live witnesses were Pence's former counsel Greg Jacob, who was with him

on January 6th and also had his life threatened by the angry mob, and former federal judge

unleading conservative thinker Michael Ludig.

He's relevant because Pence had consulted with Ludig in the days leading up to the election

certification on whether there was any constitutional basis for Trump's claim that Pence could

decide the election outcome himself.

Spoiled alert, no, there wasn't.

Ludig told the committee that his opinion was, quote, that declaring Donald Trump as president

would have plunged America into what I believe would have been tantamount to a revolution

within a constitutional crisis in America, which in my view would have been the first constitutional

crisis since the founding.

After opening statements, the committee showed video footage of insurrectionists violently

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