
Judge Orders Pence to Testify
Bloomberg Law
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The Constitution's Speech and Debate Clause
The Constitution's speech and debate clause says that you cannot be questioned for anything you say while you're in Congress. It protects members of the House or the Senate from being arrested because they said something terrible. Now Vice President Pence is arguing that he was the president of the Senate at the time of the electoral count. And therefore that is a legislative role for the Vice President, the unique role under the Constitution.
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