The Ellis memorandums were two documents drafted in 2020 by Jenna Ellis, a senior legal advisor to then-President Donald Trump, outlining her theories for how Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the 2020 election of Joe Biden.[1][2][3] In the first, sent on December 31, 2020 to Trump, Ellis recommended that Pence refuse to open six states' certified electoral votes during the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count and demand that the legislatures of those states meet in emergency electoral sessions to determine their electoral votes. In the second, sent on January 5, 2020 to presidential lawyer Jay Sekulow, Ellis argued that certain provisions of the Electoral Count Act that restricted Pence's authority to reject electors were unconsitutional and recommended that Pence halt the Electoral College vote count and "require the final ascertainment of electors to be completed before continuing".
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- Electronic copy of memos — Copies of the Ellis memorandums obtained by Politico
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- ^ Woodruff Swan, Betsy; Chenye, Kyle (December 10, 2021). "Trump campaign lawyer authored 2 memos claiming Pence could halt Biden's victory". Politico. Archived from the original on December 11, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
- ^ Rabinowitz, Hannah; Borger, Gloria; Sneed, Tierney; Lybrand, Holmes (December 10, 2021). "Memos from Trump campaign lawyer outline her theories for how Pence could reject Electoral College votes". CNN. Archived from the original on December 11, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
- ^ Dorman, John L. (November 14, 2021). "Mark Meadows sent a memo to top Mike Pence aide from a Trump campaign lawyer outlining how to overturn the 2020 election: book". Insider Inc. Archived from the original on December 2, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.