Who is Greg Jacob?

Greg Jacob’s testimony at Thursday’s Jan. 6 committee hearing offers insight into the legal mechanisms at play as then-President Donald Trump tried to pressure Vice President Mike Pence not to certify the 2020 presidential election, though he has stayed out of the limelight thus far.

EX-PENCE LEGAL COUNSEL GREG JACOB HIGHLIGHTS PAST DEMOCRATIC ELECTION CHALLENGES

Jacob is a lawyer who was Pence’s chief legal counsel from March 2020 to January 2021, according to his LinkedIn profile. He was in the Department of Labor between 2007 and 2009 and currently works in financial law. During the election certification drama, he argued against Trump lawyer John Eastman’s claims that Pence could simply refuse to certify the Electoral College result.

“It is unambiguous that the vice president does not have the authority to reject electors,” Jacob said in his testimony. “There is no suggestion of any kind that it does. There is no mention of rejecting or objecting to electors anywhere in the 12th Amendment, and so the notion that the vice president could do that certainly is not in the text.”

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Jacob is testifying along with J. Michael Luttig, a federal judge.