The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is holding its third public hearing, this time focused on former President Donald Trump's efforts to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject the electoral account to help overturn the results of the 2020 election.

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• What is the 12th Amendment?

  Witnesses at Thursday's Jan. 6 panel hearing, which is focused on then-President Donald Trump's efforts to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election results, are mentioning the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in their testimony."The first time that I had a conversation with the vice president about the 12th Amendment and the Electoral Count Act was in early December, around December 7," Greg Jacob, former counsel to Vice President Pence, said Thursday. "The vice president called me over to his West Wing office and told me that he had been seeing and reading things that just that he had a significant role to play on Jan. 6 in announcing the outcome of the election."What is the amendment? It lays out the electoral vote counting process and establishes the procedure by which the president and vice president are elected.

  The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person...

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