Who's testifying at this afternoon's Jan. 6 hearing: • Former Pence counsel Greg Jacob • Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig, who advised Pence on the argument to reject electors • Pence chief of staff Marc Short's testimony is expected to be played
" by former President Trump to pressure Pence into rejecting electors of the 2020 election — and the potential legal ramifications of his actions.Jacob the day before the Jan. 6 attack wrote in a memo obtained bythat the vice president would be breaking multiple provisions of the Electoral Count Act if he followed Trump's urging to block the certification of election results.
"The Vice President would likely find himself in an isolated standoff against both houses of Congress … with no neutral arbiter available to break the impasse," Jacob warned, per the memo. Jacob also pushed back against Trump campaign attorney John Eastman's legal theory that Pence could unilaterally reject electors.
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