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Justice Dept. has two top Pence aides appear before a grand jury….

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Grand Juries are for criminal charges….

Since the House Select Committee Hearing began?

There has been pressure on the Gardland Dept. of Justice to go after Trump & Co. for their efforts to change the outcome of the 2020 Presidential election….

With the news that Vice President Pence admin higherups coming in to testify?

(Remember Vice President Pence was asked to joint Trump’s effort and was the target of Jan. 6 protestots when Pence declined to join the Triump & Co. efforts)

Things on a Federal level maybe approaching the actions down in the Fulton County,  Georgia DA’s office probe….

The move by the Justice Department to bring two top aides to former Vice President Mike Pence in front of a federal grand jury is the most aggressive public step taken yet by prosecutors investigating the plots to subvert the 2020 election.

It signals that the Department’s probe has reached inside former President Donald Trump’s White House and that investigators are looking at conduct directly related to Trump’s and his closest allies’ efforts to overturn his election defeat….
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How to approach Trump in the January 6 investigation has been a delicate question for the Justice Department. The department has faced immense pressure from lawmakers, former prosecutors and others to focus on the ringleaders of the 2020 election reversal gambits. But any investigation of a former president raises a host of highly sensitive and potentially explosive political and legal questions.
That Pence’s inner circle is now being compelled to cooperate in the probe suggests that at least some of those obstacles have been cleared.
Last week, Attorney General Merrick Garland was visibly frustrated when a reporter grilled him about the possibility that the former president would be charged, as the former judge repeated vague assertions that, “No person is above the law in this country.”
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the House select committee, said the Pence aides testifying is a “positive” development.
“The Department of Justice needs to look at any possible criminality,” Kinzinger said Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day.” “I ask, what have they been doing for the last year and a half. That said, if they are moving forward on looking at this stuff, that’s positive for the country.”….

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