A superior court judge for Fulton County, Georgia, rejected Republican Governor Brian Kemp’s attempt to block a subpoena to testify before a grand jury in a case being brought by the county’s district attorney investigating former president Donald Trump’s attempts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
Fani Willis, the district attorney for Fulton County, is leading a probe into Mr Trump’s team’s attempts to throw out the 2020 presidential election results after he lost the state. On 4 August, she issued a subpoena to Mr Kemp, who rejected Mr Trump’s prodding to overturn the results of the election.
