National Archives to Turn Over Former Vice President Pence’s Records to Committee Investigating Insurrection

The National Archives has decided that early next month, they will turn over former Vice President Mike Pence’s records to the house select committee investigating the riots. This news comes after former President Trump said he wanted to keep them secret. This is the first set of records related to Pence’s office that the archives cleared for release after house investigators sought them and comes as top officials in Pence’s campaign testify to the Jan 6 panel. Yesterday, the archives released letters with Trump and the Biden White House explaining their decisions and positions on the set of records. The letters reveal tension over what could possible by the key communications about January 6 and Pence overseeing the Electoral College certification in Congress. Trump will have the ability to go to court and try to stop the latest release, but he lost the previous attempt to keep White House records secret at the Supreme Court. The Biden Administration is declining to assert executive privilege over the records and noted that the presidency may have even less authority to protect vice presidential communications compared to White House records.