Pence’s role on Jan. 6, when some rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence,” has been thrust back into the spotlight following Tuesday’s indictment of former President Donald Trump. In that document, federal prosecutors said Pence kept “contemporaneous notes” about meetings and conversations he had with Trump leading up to Jan 6.
The indictment also said that the president and a co-conspirator now known to be lawyer John Eastman asked Pence to use his authority as president of the Senate on Jan. 6 to either reject certain states’ electors or send them back to their state legislatures.
On Friday night, one town hall participant, Mary Bartel of Windham, asked Pence why he didn’t go along with that plan. Pence explained, as he has previously to other skeptical voters, that he did not have the authority to overturn the election.
He also told her to write down and look up “Article Two, Section One, Clause Three” of the Constitution.
“I will,” she said.
