{"id":1607321,"date":"2022-08-15T17:19:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607321"},"modified":"2022-08-15T17:19:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:19:28","slug":"sen-graham-must-appear-before-grand-jury-us-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-graham-must-appear-before-grand-jury-us-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Graham Must Appear Before Grand Jury, US Judge Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-graham-must-appear-before-grand-jury-us-judge-rules%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607321&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) must testify before a special grand jury in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-georgia\">Georgia<\/a> that is investigating possible criminal conduct related to the 2020 election, a federal judge ruled on Aug. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Graham\u2019s lawyers had argued he was exempt from testifying because he\u2019s a U.S. senator protected by the U.S. Constitution, including \u201cthe\u00a0Speech or Debate Clause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May, an Obama appointee, disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn sum, the Court finds that there are considerable areas of potential grand jury inquiry falling outside the Speech or Debate Clause\u2019s protections,\u201d May wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22136106-may-order\">a 22-page order<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, sovereign immunity fails to shield Senator Graham from testifying before the Special Purpose Grand Jury,\u201d\u00a0the judge added. \u201cFinally, though Senator Graham argues that he is exempt from testifying as a high-ranking government official, the Court finds that the District Attorney has shown extraordinary circumstances and a special need for Senator Graham\u2019s testimony on issues relating to alleged attempts to influence or disrupt the lawful administration of Georgia\u2019s 2022 elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judge denied Graham\u2019s motion to quash the subpoena, but did so\u00a0without prejudice, which means Graham can pursue the motion in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The judge remanded the case to Fulton County Superior Court, where the case had been before being moved to federal court, for further proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney had already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/judge-orders-sen-graham-to-testify-to-georgia-grand-jury-in-election-probe_4592436.html\">issued a ruling<\/a> saying Graham must testify.<\/p>\n<p>Graham told reporters in South Carolina in a recent briefing that he would appeal if the U.S. judge ruled against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and had to vote on certifying an election. This is ridiculous,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will go as far as we need to go and do whatever needs to be done to make sure that people like me can do their jobs without fear of some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) must testify before a special grand jury in Georgia that is investigating possible criminal conduct related to the 2020 election, a federal judge ruled on Aug. 15. Graham\u2019s lawyers had argued he was exempt from testifying because he\u2019s a U.S. senator protected by the U.S. Constitution, including \u201cthe\u00a0Speech or Debate Clause.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}