government and the military would back any court`s rulings that the transfer of power to then President-elect Biden was the lawful outcome.

In fact if you want to do the thought experiment if it came to it all the evidence we have suggests that the U.S. The incumbent administration cannot override the election and the courts do not support that kind of illegal ploy. And Congress already knows the attempted coup would fail even had Pence joined in.

Investigators noted that Trump`s own White House lawyers may have concluded the plot to abuse executive power to try to steal the election would be unconstitutional or otherwise criminally illegal. The committee casting this as a request for voluntarily cooperation, a way to learn key details about how Pence responded to potentially illegal requests to help Trump overturn the election and try to stay in power.