Former Vice President Mike Pence plans to use a novel legal argument to fight his subpoena from the special counsel in the Jan. 6 probe. It could take months to resolve.
subpoena issued by the special prosecutor
investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, kicking off a novel legal fight that could take months for courts to resolve. Mr. Pence will fight the subpoena on the grounds that the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause shields him from testifying, a person familiar with Mr. Pence’s deliberations said. The Speech or Debate Clause generally protects members of Congress from being questioned in court about their legislative acts. In the U.S. constitutional system, the vice president is also the president of the Senate.
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