Judge rejects Graham's appeal to delay grand jury testimony on election

Graham's latest attempt to delay his testimony before a Fulton County grand jury to investigate whether then-President Trump and his supporters interfered in the 2020 presidential election came after Sen. Denied by a judge. Graham, pending appeal, sought an emergency stay against the order to testify and asked the district judge to suspend the grand jury's ability to enforce the subpoena. That request was denied.

South Carolina Republican senator on Friday asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to stay the order, leaving the issue of his testimony scheduled for next week in his three hands. Probability is high. - Jury panel.

Graham said that when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger twice after the election, he claimed that he was doing "legislative acts" and that he had already asked a federal judge to revoke the subpoena for Fulton County attorneys said in court filings that Graham's actions were not legislative and that he sought to "explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome" for Trump. 

U.S. District Judge Lee Martin May said earlier this week that Graham's status as a senator would make him ruled that it does not protect against special elections. He appeared before the Fulton County grand jury and ordered a special grand jury on 23 August to appear as a witness.

May writes: Certainly any activity in which members of parliament may be involved falls outside the scope of protected legislative activity. Because in reality they are "more of a political rather than legislative nature". The senator on the Senate Judiciary Committee said, according to his office, that he was simply "exercising due diligence before the election count act certification ballot - where he could authenticate the election."

President Joe Biden won Georgia by just under 12,000 votes, or 0.5%. Graham has acknowledged his past phone calls and dismissed all his cheating allegations. It worked for mail-in ballots, voting.

The verdict against Graham comes amid heightened scrutiny of Mr Trump following a series of high-profile investigations. Last Friday, a New York City judge blocked an attempt to dismiss Trump's company and its former CFO on criminal tax fraud charges. Two days before that,President Trump, Letitia of New York, said hundreds of times while attending court-ordered depositions in a broad civil fraud investigation run by Attorney General James. Invoked the 5th Amendment. FBI raids Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion, classified documents allegedly improperly removed from White House A deposition was held two days after he searched for the Federal investigators in that case are investigating Trump for possible violations of his three criminal statutes, including the Espionage Act.