By Jill Colvin and Eric Tucker

WASHINGTON-- A spokesman for Mike Pence said Wednesday that the former vice president will not appeal a judge's order compelling him to testify in the Justice Department's examination into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The choice establishes a possible appearance by Pence in the coming weeks prior to a federal grand jury inspecting efforts by the previous president and supporters prior to the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to undo Democrat Joe Biden's success.

Multiple Trump administration authorities have affirmed because investigation, as well in a separate questions analyzing Trump's ownership of classified files, but Pence would be the highest-profile witness to answer concerns prior to a grand jury. His closed-door testament could use private investigators a direct account of Trump's frame of mind in the essential weeks after he lost to Biden and further expose the rift in their relationship given that the end of their administration.

The strain might grown as Pence approaches a most likely 2024 run for the presidency and a challenge to Trump, who currently is in the race for the Republican election.

After Pence was subpoenaed months earlier by the Justice Department's special counsel, legal representatives for Trump objected on executive privilege grounds. A federal judge in Washington last week declined those arguments, requiring Pence to testify.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg did offer Pence a win by accepting arguments from Pence's legal representatives that, for constitutional reasons, he might not be questioned about his actions on Jan. 6. They had actually argued that because Pence was serving in his capacity as president of the Senate that day, he was protected from being required to testify under the Constitution's "speech or dispute" clause, which is intended to protect members of Congress from questioning about official legal acts.

" Having vindicated that concept of the Constitution, Vice President Pence will not appeal the judge's judgment and will comply with the subpoena as required by law," Pence spokesman Devin O'Malley stated in a declaration Wednesday.

The Trump group might still appeal the executive privilege judgment from Boasberg.

The Jan. 6 and categorized records examinations are being led by Jack Smith, a former war criminal offenses prosecutor who was called by the Justice Department in November to act as special counsel. When the investigations might end or whether anybody will be charged, it is not clear.

Pence has spoken extensively about Trump's pressure project advising him to decline Biden's victory in the days leading up to Jan. 6, including in his book, "So Help Me God." Pence, as vice president, had a ritualistic function overseeing Congress' counting of the Electoral College vote, but did not have the power to affect the results, despite Trump's contention otherwise.

Pence has actually said that Trump threatened his household and everybody else who was at the Capitol that day and history will hold him "accountable.".

" For four years, we had a close working relationship. It did not end well," Pence composed, summarizing their time in the White House.

Colvin reported from New York.