Former vice-president is considered a crucial witness since the ex-president pressured him to reject electoral college votes for Biden
A federal appeals court has deniedemergency motion to block Mike Pence from testifying in a criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, paving the way for the special counsel examining the matter to obtain potentially inculpatory accounts of Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power.
The two interactions are of particular investigative interest to the special counsel Jack Smith as his office examinesand defraud the United States in seeking to overturn the 2020 election results. As a result, the former vice-president’s team declined to challenge the ruling. But Trump’s legal team disagreed, and filed an emergency motion to the US appeals court for the DC circuit – which was denied late on Wednesday by judges Gregory Katsas, Patricia Millett and Robert Wilkins.
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