A Georgia federal judge has rejected South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham’s bid to bar a Fulton County grand jury from asking him about phone calls he made to Georgia election officials at the time former president Donald Trump was pushing to overturn his 2020 election loss there.
In a ruling issued on Thursday, US District Judge Leigh Martin May said Mr Graham cannot invoke the US Constitution’s “Speech or Debate” clause to prevent prosecutors or grand jurors from asking about a call he held with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in the weeks following the 2020 election.
