MINNEAPOLIS — Former Vice President Mike Pence dropped in to Minnesota to test whether the evangelical right wing of the Republican Party might still be with him if he runs for president. He didn’t disappoint. Speaking at the Minneapolis Club, Pence decried “the Radical Left’s indoctrination of children.” He focused on the Linn-Mar court case over an Iowa school’s policy to facilitate students’ gender-identity transitions without parental involvement. Pence accused the Left of “increasingly bizarre obsessions with race and sex and gender.”
A Constitutional dance
Pence declared in Minneapolis that he won’t comply with a subpoena about the failed Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in 2021. His argument was built on the separation of powers in the U.S. Constitution. Pence argued that he was at the Capitol on January i6 n a legislative cpacity as president of the Senate and that the U.S. Justice Department that issued the subpoena is in the government’s executive branch. One branch of government cannot encroach on another branch, he said. Hearing Pence’s thinking on national television, most legal scholars shook their head doubtfully at whether the rationale would hold water in the courts.
Pence. On a tour to assess whether he would have a chance for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2024.