Former Vice President Mike Pence visits “Fox & Friends” at Fox News Channel studios on November 16, 2022 in New York City.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence visits “Fox & Friends” at Fox News Channel studios on November 16, 2022 in New York City.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence won’t attraction a choose’s ruling that ordered him to testify to a grand jury within the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a spokesman for Pence mentioned in a press release.

“Vice President Mike Pence swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution, and his claim that the Biden Special Counsel’s unprecedented subpoena was unconstitutional under the Speech or Debate Clause was an important one made to preserve the Separation of Powers outlined by our Founders. In the Courts decision, that principle prevailed,” Devin O’Malley, the Pence spokesman, mentioned. “The Court’s landmark and historic ruling affirmed for the first time in history that the Speech or Debate Clause extends to the Vice President of the United States. Having vindicated that principle of the Constitution, Vice President Pence will not appeal the Judge’s ruling and will comply with the subpoena as required by law.”

Pence’s testimony might emerge as a key second in a particular counsel’s investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election. When Pence will testify is unclear, although Trump might attraction the ruling by Judge James Boasberg that ordered Pence to seem earlier than the grand jury.

Trump, a front-runner within the Republican presidential subject forward of the November 2024 election, is below investigation for his efforts to overturn the election outcomes which included pressuring Pence to not certify the outcomes of the election, a largely ceremonial function for the vice chairman. Pence declined to entertain that concept, paving a means for a cut up between the 2 males. Pence can also be exploring a presidential run in 2024.