Supreme Court: Lindsey Graham Must Testify In Georgia Investigation

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) got a big fat ‘no’ from the U.S. Supreme Court in his request to quash a grand jury subpoena from a Georgia prosecutor looking into possible interference in the 2020 presidential election. And so, the subpoena can now be enforced. The district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, has sought to question Graham about calls he made to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, regarding allegations of voting irregularities in November 2020. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1587521300288913408 From the New York Times:

The court’s order was a paragraph long and did not note any dissents. It said that Mr. Graham had been afforded substantial protections by lower courts, which had ruled that he did not have to testify on subjects related to his official duties.

“The lower courts assumed that the informal investigative fact-finding that Senator Graham assertedly engaged in constitutes legislative activity protected by the speech or debate clause” of the Constitution, the order said, “and they held that Senator Graham may not be questioned about such activities.”

But the Supreme Court’s order refused to stay rulings by lower courts that permitted questioning on other topics, and it noted that Mr. Graham remained free to object to questions that implicated his legislative activities.

Graham does have one more tool at his disposal: he could refuse to answer questions by invoking his right against self-incrimination under the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment. Read more at the NY Times. https://twitter.com/stevebenen/status/1587528430546976773