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Bob Brigham

Why Judge Luttig spoke so slowly

Retired conservative jurist J. Michael Luttig before the House Jan. 6 select committee on Capitol Hill on June 16, 2022. Jabin Botsford/Washington Post via Getty Images

There has been a great deal of speculation as to why retired Judge Michael Luttig spoke so slowly at Thursday's hearing of the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"I like how this guy treats every line of his testimony like he's engraving it on a national monument. And frankly, he really *is* engraving it for history. And he seems to know it," Vanity Fair writer Joe Hagan wrote in a Twitter thread.

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