Free advice for Mike Pence

In a stern rebuke of former Vice President Mike Pence, the conservative former judge who advised Pence on how to handle the January 6, 2021, election certification vote is now warning of both the legal and political consequences of Pence’s plan to fight the grand jury subpoena by special counsel Jack Smith.

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In recent public comments, Pence has said he will fight the subpoena on the grounds that, under the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause, the executive branch cannot compel his testimony before a grand jury.

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“We can expect the federal courts to make short shrift of this ‘Hail Mary’ claim and Mr. Pence doesn’t have a chance in the world of winning his case in any federal court and avoiding testifying before the grand jury,” former Judge J. Michael Luttig says in an op-ed published in The New York Times on Friday.

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Mr. Pence is trying to score points with voters who want to see President Biden unseated in 2024. Well enough. That’s what politicians do,” Luttig writes. “But Jack Smith’s subpoena was neither politically motivated nor designed to strengthen President Biden’s political hand in 2024. Thus the jarring dissonance between the subpoena and Mr. Pence’s characterization of it. It is Mr. Pence who has chosen to politicize the subpoena, not the D.O.J.”

  CNN

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.