![]() After hearing arguments from his lawyers and from Willis’ office, a federal judge last week declined to quash his subpoena. Jody Hice, a Georgia Republican, filed a federal court challenge similar to Graham’s after he received a subpoena to testify before the special grand jury. Before a judge there could hold a hearing, he withdrew that case and agreed to file any challenges to a subpoena in the investigation in either state superior court or federal court in Georgia, according to a court filing. Graham had previously filed a federal court challenge in South Carolina to try to stop Willis’ efforts to compel him to testify. The judge granted that request, setting a hearing for Aug. 23, his lawyers asked for expedited consideration of his motion to quash. Given that Graham has been summoned to testify on Aug. Willis’ office will respond in court and expects Graham to testify before the special grand jury, spokesperson Jeff DiSantis said. senator “to face a state ad hoc investigatory body.” And they assert that Willis has failed to demonstrate “the ‘extraordinary circumstances’ necessary to order a high-ranking federal official to testify.” Constitution that they say “provides absolute protection against inquiry into Senator Graham’s legislative acts.” They also argue “sovereign immunity” prevents a local prosecutor from summoning a U.S. Graham’s lawyers cite a provision of the U.S. When he made those calls, Graham “was engaged in quintessentially legislative factfinding - both to help him form election-related legislation, including in his role as then-Chair of the Judiciary Committee, and to help inform his vote to certify the election,” his lawyers wrote in a court filing on Friday. In a court filing last month, Willis, a Democrat, wrote that Graham made at least two telephone calls to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and members of his staff in the weeks after Trump’s loss to Biden, asking about reexamining certain absentee ballots “to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump.” He has denied meddling in Georgia’s election. Graham had said repeatedly that he would fight the subpoena once he received it, which happened last week, according to his lawyers. The senator is one of the Trump allies who Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis wants to question as part of her investigation into what she alleges was “a multi-state, coordinated plan by the Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere.” Graham is seeking to have the challenge to the subpoena heard in federal court in Atlanta rather than before the Fulton County Superior Court judge who’s overseeing the special grand jury. Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, received a subpoena that was issued on July 26 and orders him to appear before the special grand jury to testify on Aug. Lindsey Graham is challenging a subpoena to testify before a special grand jury that’s investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others broke any laws when they tried to overturn Joe Biden’s win in Georgia. ![]()
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