The Supreme Court declined to keep Sen. Lindsey Graham from having to testify before a Georgia grand jury investigating possible interference in the 2020 election.
“A stay or injunction is not necessary to safeguard the Senator’s Speech or Debate Clause immunity,” the court said in the unsigned order. There were no recorded dissents.
However, the order did find that Graham can return to court “should disputes arise regarding the application of the Speech or Debate Clause immunity to specific questions.” That note makes it likely that Graham will claim immunity to all questions asked him by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her fellow prosecutors.
Willis launched the investigation in March 2021 into whether Trump and his associates tried to illegally reverse the election results after Joe Biden won the state by more than 11,000 votes. Graham claimed that his calls to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger were for “legislative fact-finding.”Trump and Raffensperger“All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump told the secretary of state during the Jan. 2, 2021, call. “Because we won the state.”
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