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    Trump knew asking Pence to overturn election was illegal, Jan. 6 committee says

    by Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times Jun 16, 2022 5 minutes
    J. Michael Luttig, second from left, former U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the 4th Circuit, and Greg Jacob, former counsel to Vice President Mike Pence, arrive to testify before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 16, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump knew that asking Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally overturn the 2020 presidential election was illegal but pressured him to do it anyway, the House committee investigating Jan. 6, 2021, argued at its Thursday hearing, where it also made the case that Trump put Pence’s life in danger during the Capitol insurrection.

    The committee outlined a multiweek effort by then-President Trump and California attorney John Eastman that included private meetings and tweets aimed at pressuring Pence to help keep Trump in office. Eastman’s theory was that Pence could either reject electoral votes outright or suspend the proceedings and declare a 10-day recess during which state legislatures would be ordered to reexamine election results.

    Neither approach is allowed under the Constitution’s 12th Amendment or the

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