Judge required Pence to answer most of special counsel’s questions, newly unsealed court docs show

[onthedarkside]

 

The figures pressuring Mike Pence to reject Joe Biden’s electoral votes on Jan. 6 were asking him to act “unlawfully,” the chief judge of Washington D.C.’s federal district court ruled in a secret April decision.

 

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg’s 19-page opinion — which the judge partially unsealed Friday at the urging of media organizations — cleared the way for special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors to question the former vice president about his conversations with a wide array of figures who leaned on him to reject Biden’s electors, possibly including Donald Trump.

 

“The bottom line is that conversations exhorting Pence to reject electors on January 6th are not protected,” Boasberg wrote in the ruling, dated March 27, adding, “There is no dispute in this case that Pence lacked the authority to reject certified electoral votes.”

 

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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/09/judge-required-pence-to-answer-most-of-special-counsels-questions-newly-unsealed-court-docs-show-00101381

 

[ozimoron]

Thank God for the rule of law.

[ThailandRyan]

This is very interesting. Never knew they had placed the individuals who had attempted to assist in the coup under investigation.  This coming to light looks like a giant X marked on Trumps back for the next upcoming indictment for the Jan 6 insurrection.

 

Pence looks like he has remained silent for good reasons. From the Linked article:

 

"Trump claimed his conversations with Pence were shielded by executive privilege — an argument Boasberg squarely rejected. Pence, however, took a different tack, arguing that he should be afforded the same immunity from DOJ questioning that members of Congress receive.

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and further down in the article

 

"In the final frenzied weeks before Jan. 6, Trump leaned on Pence to single-handedly disrupt the transfer of power by refusing to count Joe Biden’s electors on Jan. 6, when Pence was tasked with presiding over Congress to count electoral votes and finalize the results"

 

"Trump called Pence on the morning of Jan. 6 and berated him for refusing to acquiesce, urging him to reconsider just minutes before Pence traveled to the Capitol.  Pence’s refusal shattered Trump’s last-ditch bid to cling to power and became fuel for an angry mob of Trump supporters that subsequently ransacked the Capitol that day."

 

This right here is testimony Jack Smith has obtained.

[Tug]

It’s sad they had to kinda squeeze pence to get the truth out of him that should have been forthcoming on j7 Trump should have been flushed long ago,oh well better late then never 

[nobodysfriend]

Pence , at least , seems to be man who has some honorable principles .

Trump seems to be a man who does not .