Jan. 6 panel interviews Wisconsin GOP Assembly speaker

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol interviewed Republican Wisconsin Meeting Speaker Robin Vos on Wednesday, shifting to wrap up depositions forward of making ready a closing report.

Vos had filed a federal lawsuit in search of to dam a subpoena demanding his testimony a couple of cellphone name with Donald Trump in July 2021 throughout which the previous president requested him to overturn Wisconsin’s outcomes for the 2020 election.

Either side agreed to postpone oral arguments within the lawsuit that had been initially scheduled for Oct. 24, and Vos confirmed Wednesday that he had met with the committee.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, the panel’s chairman, informed reporters the committee needed to see “if there’s any extra info that we are able to glean” from Trump’s name to Vos.

The committee has spent components of the previous 12 months and a half questioning a number of state and native lawmakers in seven swing states that Democrat Joe Biden received in 2020. Within the days and weeks after the presidential election, Trump and his allies sought to overturn the leads to these states to favor the Republican.

Vos, in a quick assertion, stated that his assembly with the committee “was temporary, and I answered their questions relating to Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election.”

Trump repeatedly pressured Vos to overturn Biden’s slim win in Wisconsin, however Vos says he rejected these efforts citing attorneys who stated such a transfer can be unlawful and unconstitutional. Vos did rent former Wisconsin Supreme Court docket Justice Michael Gableman to conduct a assessment of the election, however fired him three days after Vos received his reelection main over a Republican opponent Gableman endorsed. Trump additionally endorsed Vos’s opponent.

In July, Trump referred to as Vos to debate a Wisconsin Supreme Court docket ruling that using absentee drop packing containers was unlawful. The ruling utilized solely to future elections, not the 2020 election carried out in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic when absentee voting and using drop packing containers soared.

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Trump argued that the ruling meant absentee ballots delivered in drop packing containers in Wisconsin in 2020 ought to be invalidated, Vos stated.

“It’s very constant,” Vos informed WISN-TV. “He makes his case, which I respect. He would really like us to do one thing completely different in Wisconsin. I defined it’s not allowed beneath the Structure. He has a distinct opinion.”

The nine-member U.S. Home committee indicated Wednesday that its interview with Vos was the final scheduled deposition earlier than turning all of its consideration to its report, which is anticipated to be launched by the top of the 12 months.

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Bauer reported from Madison, Wisconsin.

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