The judge’s decision allowing Mike Pence to testify before a grand jury about the storming of the Capitol has been made public.

Figures that exerted pressure Mike Pence reject the electoral vote Joe Biden January 6, 2021 asked him to act “illegally”, handed down the decision to the Chief Justice of the Washington, D.C. District Court in a secret decision in April, and this decision this is the key understand how the judge made it easy for former vice president Mike Pence to answer questions Special Prosecutor Jack Smith about the events leading up to the attack on US Capitol.

19-page opinion of a Judge of the District Court of Colombia. James E Boasberg, what the judge partially disclosed on Friday at the behest of the media, paved the way for investigators Special Prosecutor Jack Smith According to Politico, former Vice President Pence will be questioned about his conversations with various people that focused on Pence rejecting Biden supporters, possibly to annul the 2020 presidential election and elect Donald Trump instead.

Federal Judge Boasberg presides over the trial of the assailants who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, as well as the grand jury involved in Attorney General Jack Smith’s investigations into former President Donald Trump. and a possible attempt to reverse the 2020 election results.

Initially, Pence challenged Special Counsel Jack Smith’s subpoena. an investigation into attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, culminating in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

In one of his first official actions, Chief Justice Boasberg issued what could be a landmark decision when he ordered former Vice President Mike Pence to testify about his contacts with Trump in the days leading up to the uprising.

Last March, Pence hailed what he called a landmark decision by U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of Washington, D.C., admitting that Pence could remain silent on matters specifically related to his role in Congress on January 6th.when he presided over a joint session of Congress to confirm the results of a presidential election that was interrupted by an aggressive mob of Trump supporters.

Pence called Boasberg’s decision first to expose how the vice president is also entitled to the constitutional protection enjoyed by legislators that he is not being forced to testify even as part of criminal investigations, according to The Washington Post, which also reported on Friday about Boasberg’s partially disclosed decision.

Boasberg said in his ruling that the defense is limited to the official duties of legislators or actions taken to prepare them, and it does not cover “messages urging the legislator to act unlawfully”.

Boasberg’s decision and reasoning have been kept secret until now. because grand jury rules generally forbid anyone other than witnesses from discussing them. The news organizations asked the judge to reveal them, and on Friday he granted their request, noting that Pence and his team’s comments and phrases eliminated the need for secrecy.

“The bottom line is that conversations calling for Pence to drop voters on January 6 are not immune from investigation,” Boasberg said, in his opinion.

Pence, who is running against Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has positioned himself as a hard-nosed witness who is fighting pressure to testify. However, he discussed the events that led to the attempt to overturn the 2020 election results in his book Help Me God, published late last year, and in promotional interviews.