South Carolina U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham urged a federal judge to kill a Fulton County subpoena seeking his testimony before the special grand jury examining potential criminal interference in Georgia's 2020 elections.
In a filing with the U.S. District Court for South Carolina's Anderson Division on Wednesday, lawyers for the Republican senator argued that the U.S. Constitution's "Speech or Debate" clause shields Graham from answering questions about his conduct in the weeks following the 2020 elections.
A Fulton judge signed an order last week compelling Graham and six other Trump allies who live outside the state to travel to Atlanta in July or August to testify before the special grand jury. The judge ruled that all seven were "necessary and material" witnesses to the Fulton investigation, which was launched in February 2021.
