ATLANTA — The Fulton County judge overseeing the special grand jury that’s examining whether there was any criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 elections said Thursday that 11 “alternate” Republican electors who were recently deemed targets of the probe would need to honor subpoenas for their testimony.
Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney indicated that those witnesses could still assert their Fifth Amendment rights not to incriminate themselves, but that they couldn’t skip appearances before the grand jury beginning next week.
But McBurney did not indicate during an afternoon hearing about how he would rule on one of the biggest questions laid before him: whether Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis and her office should be pulled from at least one portion of the investigation because the DA held a fundraiser for the political opponent of one of probe’s targets, Republican lieutenant governor nominee Burt Jones.
