“The bottom line is that conversations exhorting Pence to reject electors on January 6th are not protected,” D.C.’s federal district court's chief judge wrote in April.
“The bottom line is that conversations exhorting Pence to reject electors on January 6th are not protected,” D.C.’s federal district court’s chief judge wrote in April.
Pence appeared for that closed-door testimony on April 27 and answered questions for more than six hours. The substance of the questions and answers remain almost entirely shielded from public view but nevertheless marked a historic moment in Smith’s unprecedented criminal probe of Trump and his allies’ efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
That immunity, afforded by the Constitution’s “speech or debate clause” is meant to shield lawmakers and congressional officials from compelled testimony to the Executive Branch. Pence emphasized that on Jan. 6, 2021, he was fulfilling his constitutional role as “president of the Senate,” presiding over both houses of Congress to count electoral votes. That role entitles him to congressional immunity, he contended.
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