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<p>Lawyers for former Vice President <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/pences-classified-docs-are-a-new-headache-for-ag-merrick-garland">Mike Pence</a> and the Justice Department should think twice before appealing Chief Judge Jeb Boasberg’s rulings <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/us/politics/pence-testify-jan-6-grand-jury.html">rejecting arguments to get Pence out of testifying</a> before the Jan. 6 grand jury.</p>
<p>The Trump legal team had argued <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-offers-absurd-legal-argument-for-executive-privilege-jan-6-committee">executive privilege</a> completely shielded Pence from complying with a grand jury subpoena to testify about what he knew of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Pence’s legal team argued that the speech or debate clause of the U.S. Constitution would similarly excuse him from complying.</p>
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The Trump legal team had argued executive privilege completely shielded Pence from complying with a grand jury subpoena to testify about what he knew of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Pence’s legal team argued that the speech or debate clause of the U.S. Constitution would similarly excuse him from complying.
