Former US Vice President Pence Must Testify Before Grand Jury, Judge Rules

A federal judge in Washington has ordered former Vice President Mike Pence to comply with a grand jury subpoena and testify about his conversations with former President Donald Trump as Trump tried to overturn his 2020 defeat for reelection. Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge for the U.S. District Court in Washington, issued the ruling Monday, mostly rejecting pleas by Trump and Pence to keep the former vice president from having to divulge their private conversations at the White House and in phone calls. While the ruling remains sealed, U.S. news outlets reported that Boasberg rejected contentions by Trump's lawyers that certain of his discussions with Pence in the weeks after
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