A federal appeals court on Sunday agreed to temporarily put on hold a lower court’s ruling that South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham appear before a special grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s illegal efforts to undo his 2020 election loss in Georgia.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened the investigation early last year, prompted by a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump asked Raffensperger to “find” the votes needed to overturn his defeat in the state.
According to Willis, Graham also made two phone calls to Raffensperger and his staff shortly after the 2020 general election, asking about “reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump.”
The subpoena is seeking to compel Graham’s testimony before the grand jury.
But the three-judge panel of the appeals court issued the order temporarily pausing U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May’s order declining to quash the subpoena.
According to Huffington Post, the panel sent the case back to May to decide whether the subpoena should be partially quashed or modified because of protections granted to members of Congress by the U.S. Constitution.
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