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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Inasmuch as Mr. Pence’s claim is novel and an unsettled question in constitutional law, it is only novel and unsettled because there has never been a time in our country’s history where it was thought imperative for someone in a vice president’s position, or his lawyer, to conjure the argument. In other words, Mr. Pence’s claim is the proverbial invention of the mother of necessity if ever there was one.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/opinion/mike-pence-grand-jury.html