Thursday’s Jan. 6 select committee hearing will focus on President Trump’s efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to summarily overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
Committee aides told reporters on Wednesday that the presentation and testimony on Thursday will address the emergence of the theory pushed by lawyer John Eastman that Pence could unilaterally reject electoral votes cast in several states Trump lost.
Finally, the committee plans to use the hearing to “demonstrate that there’s an ongoing threat to democracy” from people who are still pushing the debunked view that the 2020 election was rigged and should have been overturned.Much of presentation on Thursday will be led by Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., aides said. In-person testimony will be given by Greg Jacobs, who served as Pence’s chief counsel, and J. Michael Luttig, a former federal judge who advised Pence in the lead-up to Jan. 6.
Former Vice President Mike Pence was seen via video as the House Jan. 6 select committee held its first public hearing on June 9.