ATLANTA — A Fulton County judge on Thursday did not indicate how he would rule on a request from Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to block a subpoena for his testimony before the special purpose grand jury studying whether President Donald Trump and his allies violated state law when they sought to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.
During a two-hour hearing, Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney heard dense legal arguments from attorneys for Kemp and the Fulton County district attorney’s office about whether the governor is shielded from testifying due to a centuries-old concept known as sovereign immunity.
He was also briefed on a communication breakdown between the two camps that led to the cancellation of Kemp’s voluntary testimony, the governor’s subsequent subpoena and an eleventh-hour motion from the governor’s attorney to quash the summons.
