WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a short lived maintain on Sen. Lindsey Graham’s testimony in a Georgia investigation of attainable unlawful interference within the 2020 election by then-President Donald Trump and his allies within the state.
The courtroom left no authorized impediments in the way in which of Graham’s look earlier than a particular grand jury, now scheduled for Nov. 17.
But in an unsigned order, the justices famous that Graham nonetheless may elevate objections to some questions.
The South Carolina senator, a high Trump ally, had argued {that a} provision of the Constitution, the speech and debate clause, shields him from being compelled to testify.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had advised the justices that “the delay resulting from a stay would be unavoidably harmful” to the grand jury investigation.
Lower courts had rebuffed Graham’s plea for a pause whereas the authorized case performs out.
Tuesday’s order dissolved a short lived maintain that Justice Clarence Thomas had positioned on the testimony whereas he and his colleagues weighed the arguments.
