Donald Trump has appealed a judge’s order requiring his former vice president, Mike Pence, to testify to the grand jury probing the effort to subvert the 2020 election.
Special Counsel Jack Smith is seeking Pence’s testimony in the federal probe of Trump’s bid to undermine the 2020 election.
Trump’s appeal, filed under seal, was lodged on the court docket Monday morning. The former president had challenged the bid by special counsel Jack Smith to compel Pence’s testimony earlier this year, claiming it would intrude on conversations protected by executive privilege. Under the Constitution, Pence as vice president also served as president of the Senate, entitling him to some measure of congressional immunity, Boasberg found. Although Pence and his allies felt that the ruling didn’t extend far enough, PenceTrump’s executive privilege challenges to Justice Department subpoenas have not fared well in a series of secret court proceedings that have played out in recent months.
“The DOJ is continuously stepping far outside the standard norms in attempting to destroy the long accepted, long held, Constitutionally based standards of attorney-client privilege and executive privilege,” said Trump spokesman Steven Cheung.
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