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A new report revealed that the judge James Boasberg of the United States District Court decided that Mike Pence must testify before the grand jury which analyzes the riots of January 6, 2021 over the conversations he had with Donald Trump prior to the insurrection.
CNN reported that the judge, in a ruling that remains closed, said that Pence could still decline to answer questions related to his actions that January 6 when he served as president of the Senate for the certification of the 2020 elections from which Joe Biden emerged victorious.
It is known, thanks to the book that Pence wrote, that days before the January 6 riots Trump told him he was “too honest” to try to overturn the election resultsIn addition, he accepted that he asked his general counsel for a computer session on the procedures of the Electoral Count Law after the former president mentioned to him through a telephone call, on December 5, 2019, “Challenge the results of the House of Representatives elections for the first time.”
“Mister. President, I do not question that there were irregularities and fraud,” Pence wrote that he told Trump. “It’s just a question of who decides, and under the law that’s Congress.”
Since the subpoena was released, Pence has been reluctant, even revealing to the press that I would fight the summons “First let me be clear, I am going to fight the DOJ subpoena for Biden to appear before the grand jury because I believe it is unconstitutional and unprecedented.”
“On January 6, he was acting as president of the Senate, presiding over a joint session, described in the Constitution itself. So, I believe that Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution actually prohibits the executive branch from forcing me to appear in court, as the Constitution says, or anywhere else. And we will stand by that principle and take that case as far as it takes, if need be to the Supreme Court of the United States, because to me it’s a matter of separation of powers,” Pence said.
According to CNN’s source, so far The exact date on which Pence will have to appear to testify is not known.
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