The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was seeking an injunction blocking him from having to appear before a grand jury to give testimony regarding an election interference inquiry in the state of Georgia
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Sen. Lindsey Graham , who was seeking an injunction blocking him from having to appear before a grand jury to give testimony regarding an election interference inquiry in the state of Georgia.after a district judge ruled that he had to appear before the grand jury to give testimony regarding his conversations with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger relating to the state’s 2020 presidential election outcome.
Had Raffensberger complied with Graham’s request, it would have excluded thousands of legitimate votes from the state’s total. Because most mail-in ballots that year came from supporters of now-President Joe Biden, this would have illegitimately skewed the election results in favor of Donald Trump. A temporary injunction on the appeals court ruling for Graham to appear before the grand jury was issued by Justice Clarence Thomas late last month, as he is responsible for overseeing the 11th Circuit Court.
it is illegal in the state of Georgia to try to coerce an election official to engage in election fraudThe High Court did write in its order on Tuesday that Graham does not have to answer any questions regarding his official business as a U.S. senator, however. It’s possible that Graham will claim in future appeals after meeting with the grand jury that he was acting within his senatorial duties when trying to coerce Raffensperger to discount thousands of votes.
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