“Donald Trump can not block his former vice chairman from testifying earlier than a grand jury investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, a federal appeals court docket dominated Wednesday,” the Washington Submit studies.
“The ruling helps clear the way in which for Mike Pence to talk beneath oath in regards to the strain Trump put him beneath to declare the 2020 election outcomes invalid. Whereas Trump might search to additional forestall that testimony by interesting to the U.S. Supreme Courtroom, different individuals within the president’s orbit have testified after comparable shedding battles within the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.”