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If they had asked him to go in there and detonate a bomb

that would prevent Congress from filling its duties,

everyone would agree that that would not have been a legislative act.

Yet, by the same token, asking Pence to somehow magically rule

that a electoral vote should be sent back to the states

for further investigation was equally outside of the realm of his powers.

So I don't think that they were at what Trump and company were trying to get

Pence to do should be considered a legislative act

and therefore under the protection of the speech-reader-based laws.

I'm Quinted Jurassic, senior editor at LawFair.

And this is the LawFair podcast, February 22, 2023.

Special counsel Jack Smith has issued a subpoena to former vice president Mike Pence

as part of the investigation into Trump's role in instigating the January 6 riot.

But Pence has said he'll fight the subpoena.

And he's pointed to the speech-reader-based laws,

a constitutional immunity that protects members of Congress,

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