Mike Pence doesn't want to testify in the federal Jan. 6 probe. But his feelings appear to be woefully unpersuasive. (via MaddowBlog)
Former Vice President Mike Pence’s relevance to Jack Smith’s special counsel investigation is not in doubt. The Indiana Republican was not only hunted by Donald Trump’s radicalized followers during the insurrectionist attack on the Capitol, but Pence was also pressured by the former president to participate in an illegal scheme to overturn the 2020 election results.
Time will tell whether the special counsel prevails — most legal experts seem to agree that the odds are in his favor — but while the process moves forward, it’s worth pausing to appreciate Pence’s explanation for why, exactly, he feels justified blowing off a federal subpoena. This is not a serious objection. There is literally nothing to suggest any connection between the Oval Office and the special counsel’s office, and legitimate federal subpoenas do not become suggestions when partisans dislike the incumbent president and his/her party.
This came up quite a bit in the aftermath of the FBI executing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago last summer, as Trump and his allies emphasized that such a move was “unprecedented.” Maybe so. But that didn’t help the suspect’s case: The truly unprecedented part of the story was a former president taking sensitive materials, refusing to give them back, and then allegedly taking steps to obstruct the retrieval process.
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