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2 verified reports published on February 21, 2023.
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The throughline was simple: when a political operation spends this much time fighting subpoenas, classified-documents probes, and the fallout from Jan. 6, it stops looking like a movement and starts looking like a case file. February 21 did not deliver a single knockout blow, but it showed the pileup getting harder to ignore.
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Mike Pence said he will contest a special counsel subpoena tied to the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Pence said he would challenge it on constitutional grounds, including the Speech or Debate Clause, and would take the fight as far as the Supreme Court if needed.
As of Feb. 21, 2023, the classified-documents investigation into Donald Trump was still active, with prosecutors having recently sought to press ahead on privilege issues and the case continuing to pose legal and political risk.