WASHINGTON — In the days leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, conservative lawyer John Eastman repeatedly pressed then-Vice President Mike Pence to either reject certain states' electoral college votes or delay Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election, leaving seemingly no options for a logical resolution, according to testimony from a House select committee hearing Thursday.
"If the courts did not step in to resolve this, there was nobody else to resolve this," said Greg Jacob, who was Pence's chief counsel. "… That issue might well then have to be decided in the streets."
Jacob said during his testimony that on Jan. 5, 2021, Eastman and Jacob had a meeting during which Eastman requested that Pence "reject the electors" outright.
