{"id":1618221,"date":"2022-08-21T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T18:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618221"},"modified":"2022-08-21T14:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T18:48:15","slug":"sen-lindsey-graham-wont-have-to-testify-before-georgia-grand-jury-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-lindsey-graham-wont-have-to-testify-before-georgia-grand-jury-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Lindsey Graham Won\u2019t Have to Testify Before Georgia Grand Jury for Now"},"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\">26<\/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-lindsey-graham-wont-have-to-testify-before-georgia-grand-jury-for-now%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=1618221&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>A federal appeals court delivered a victory for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday by blocking a subpoena that had ordered him to testify before a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-georgia\">Georgia<\/a> grand jury investigating the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>A three-judge panel with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22156179-grahamca11ord082122\">pdf<\/a>) a temporary injunction against the subpoena, sending the case back to a lower court. The district court will now have to determine whether the subpoena is modified or quashed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case is remanded to the district court for the limited purpose of allowing the district court to determine whether [Graham] is entitled to a partial quashal or modification of the subpoena to appear before the special purpose grand jury based on any protections afforded by the Speech or Debate Clause of the United States Constitution,\u201d the ruling, issued Sunday, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing resolution of the partial-quashal issue on limited remand, the matter will be returned to this Court for further consideration,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May ruled several days ago that Graham had to testify in front of the\u00a0Fulton County grand jury in relation to former President Donald Trump\u2019s election-related efforts in Georgia after the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/judge-issues-rebuke-to-georgia-prosecutor-investigating-trump_4615919.html\">criticized<\/a> by a judge last month over her\u00a0partaking in a fundraiser against an individual she is investigating, wrote in court filings that the grand jury required testimony from Graham on two calls he allegedly made to\u00a0Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff following the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the telephone calls, the Witness questioned Secretary Raffensperger and his staff about reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump,\u201d Willis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/sen-graham-pushes-back-on-election-accusations-after-grand-jury-subpoenas-him-in-trump-case_4597578.html\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Graham\u2019s attorneys previously argued that the senator should not be forced to testify<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court delivered a victory for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday by blocking a subpoena that had ordered him to testify before a Georgia grand jury investigating the 2020 election. A three-judge panel with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued (pdf) a temporary injunction against the subpoena, sending the case back [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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-1618221","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\/1618221","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618221\/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=1618221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}