{"id":1626084,"date":"2022-08-29T18:34:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626084"},"modified":"2022-08-29T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:34:13","slug":"georgia-gov-kemp-must-testify-before-special-grand-jury-after-nov-8-election-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-gov-kemp-must-testify-before-special-grand-jury-after-nov-8-election-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Gov. Kemp Must Testify Before Special Grand Jury After Nov. 8 Election: Judge"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fgeorgia-gov-kemp-must-testify-before-special-grand-jury-after-nov-8-election-judge%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=1626084&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 judge in Georgia on Aug. 29 rejected Gov. Brian Kemp\u2019s motion to dismiss a subpoena for him to testify before the special purpose grand jury in the probe of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fulton-county\">Fulton County<\/a> Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney denied the motion, which invoked sovereign immunity and claimed that the county court didn\u2019t have jurisdiction to issue or enforce the subpoena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Court finds that it does enjoy jurisdiction and that the subpoena should not be quashed,\u201d the judge wrote in the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>However, McBurney delayed the governor\u2019s appearance before the grand jury to a date \u201csoon after the 8 November 2022 general election,\u201d in which Kemp will face Democrat Stacey Abrams.<\/p>\n<p>He postponed the date because Kemp is in the midst of a campaign for reelection and to avoid the case from being used to influence the election results, the judge wrote.<\/p>\n<p>McBurney also declined to quash a subpoena for lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who represented the Trump campaign. He\u2019s scheduled to appear before the special grand jury on Aug. 30, according to a court filing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/02\/10\/fani-willis-1200x830.jpg\"><\/a> Fulton County Deputy District Attorney Fani Willis makes closing arguments during a trial in Atlanta, on Aug. 24, 2016. (John Bazemore\/AP Photo) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudge McBurney acknowledged the potential political impact of the timing of these proceedings and correctly paused the Governor\u2019s involvement until after the November election,\u201d Kemp\u2019s office said in a statement after the ruling. \u201cJust as we have since April 2021, we will work with the DA\u2019s office and the judge to ensure a full accounting of the Governor\u2019s limited role in the issues being investigated is available to the special grand jury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis\u2019s office didn\u2019t respond by press time to a request by The Epoch Times for comment.<\/p>\n<p> More Trump Allies Subpoenaed <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have said they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge in Georgia on Aug. 29 rejected Gov. Brian Kemp\u2019s motion to dismiss a subpoena for him to testify before the special purpose grand jury in the probe of the 2020 election. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney denied the motion, which invoked sovereign immunity and claimed that the county court didn\u2019t have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"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-1626084","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\/1626084","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\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626084\/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=1626084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}