‘Denied’: Supreme Court Rejects Lindsey Graham’s Bid to Avoid Testifying Before Grand Jury in 2020 Election Subversion Probe – By Colin Kalmbacher (Law & Crime) / Nov 1, 2022
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is on track to be grilled about what he knows of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request to quash a subpoena issued by the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.
Successive federal courts have signed off on the subpoena request. The nation’s high court becomes the latest court do do so.
In September, a federal district handed both sides in the months-long legal dispute a partial victory and loss – ordering Graham to testify before Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) under the auspices of a special grand jury authorized by a county judge to investigate election subversion efforts by Trump and others.
Meanwhile, U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May cabined the scope of the questioning available to investigators on the basis of the U.S. Constitution’s speech or debate clause, which generally protects members of Congress from actions taken in their official capacity.
