On January 5, Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis sent a memo to former presidential lawyer Jay Sekulow, which was first reported by Politico. The memo took aim at the federal statute, the Electoral Count Act, which lays out the procedures by which Congress certifies an election, while giving the vice president a limited role in the ceremonial process. “I was very public in saying that all Pence could do was open the envelopes,” Sekulow told CNN on Friday. Ellis said in a tweet Friday that she “never advocated Pence had the authority to overturn the election,” and that the memos simply outlined “legal theories I explored. In a second tweet, she claimed that Politico violated attorney-client privilege.

Source: CNN December 11, 2021 01:42 UTC