Exclusive: Why Did Mike Pence Fight So Hard to Keep This White Paper Secret?
Rewire has obtained a political white paper that Vice President Mike Pence has spent more than two years fighting to keep secret.
This white paper details legal strategy shared with Republican governors in a 2014 email about the best way to challenge former President Barack Obama’s order to provide temporary deportation relief to certain undocumented immigrants. The paper has become a matter of public fascination, as it is the subject of a separate lawsuit filed against Pence in December 2014, when he was governor of Indiana.
The document focuses on what Republicans then claimed vociferously to be executive overreach by the Obama administration, a use of executive authority they now appear to at least tacitly support as employed by the Trump administration in its sweeping ban on immigrants from Muslim-majority countries. Trump’s revised order is set to come into effect early Thursday unless legal challenges prevail before then.
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