Hey, remember when Lindsey Graham tweeted this back in 2016?
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) May 3, 2016
Well, it looks like that day may soon be upon him.
As we predicted would happen, Graham just lost his appeal to get out of testifying before an Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating efforts by ex-president Donald Trump and his cohorts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the anti-LGBTQ senator must appear before the special grand jury, although it also ruled that he can only be questioned about certain topics after he expressed concerns of a “fishing expedition.”
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The grand jury wants to speak with him about two phone calls he made to Brad Raffensperger after the election, during in which he allegedly pressured the Georgia Secretary of State to “explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump.”
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Graham’s lawyers tried to argued that, as a sitting US senator, he has “sovereign immunity” from state court procedures, as well as constitutional protection because “the testimony sought relates to matters within the legislative sphere.”
Unfortunately for him, the federal appeals court wasn’t convinced.
“(C)ommunications and coordination with the Trump campaign regarding its post-election efforts in Georgia, public statements regarding the 2020 election, and efforts to ‘cajole’ or ‘exhort’ Georgia election officials” are not legislative activities protected by the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution, the three-judge panel, which included two Trump appointees, unanimously ruled.
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This is a huge loss for Graham (and, to an extent, Trump) and a major win for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is leading the investigation, as well as, you know, democracy.
Graham, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, must now travel to the Fulton County courthouse in downtown Atlanta or risk being held in contempt of court.
Now, some tweets…
Lindsey Graham has to testify before Fani Willis’s grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia. I’ll drink to that. So will he.
— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) October 20, 2022
BREAKING: The *conservative* Federal Appeals Court in Atlanta just denied Lindsey Graham’s request for an emergency stay of Judge Leigh Martin May’s order requiring him to testify before the Fulton County grand jury. Testify or be held in contempt and arrested @LindseyGrahamSC.
— Andrew Wortman ?????? (@AmoneyResists) October 20, 2022
Lindsey Graham tried to have Black votes thrown out. He is now facing the consequences of his actions.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) October 20, 2022
Finding out that traitorous shitweasel Lindsey Graham can’t weasel out of testifying in front of a Georgia grand jury investigating his election interference has just made my whole goddamn day, I tell you what.
— ? Scary Larry ? ??????? (@aintscarylarry) October 20, 2022
After a court denied another of Lindsey Graham's refusals to testify in Georgia he declared "Then you leave me no choice. I'm going to take the stand, sing Melancholy Baby and tell the judge I'm taking the Fifth – a fifth of Crown Royal on the rocks and a bowl of salted peanuts!" pic.twitter.com/wkjpP0cQfK
— Paul Rudnick (@PaulRudnickNY) October 20, 2022
Appeals court rules Lindsey Graham can no longer run from justice. He must testify before Georgia grand jury investigating Trump his election interference.
Your reminder: Senator Lindsey Graham sits on the senate judiciary committee.
— flexghost. (@flexghost1) October 20, 2022
Lindsey Graham is clutching his pearls tighter than his pool boy.
— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) October 21, 2022
Who is going to tell Lindsey Graham that taking the 5th when answering questions about attempting to overthrow the government is not a good look for a Senator; or an attorney? #FreshWords
— Southern Sister Resister – Wordsmith #IAmTheStorm (@ResisterSis20) October 21, 2022
Lindsey Graham will end up spilling all the tea on Trump.
— Mayo ? (@MayoIsSpicyy) October 20, 2022
Lindsey Graham refusing to testify at the Georgia Grand Jury, unless they provide a fainting couch.
— Hoodlum ?? (@NotHoodlum) October 20, 2022
dbmcvey
This is giving him the vapers!
Gadfeal
It could be worse — a disgruntled escort with revealing photos or video making a broadcast during Mr. Graham’s talk at a Protect American Families First fundraiser.
Rudolph Giuliani and he should share a cell with Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of Britain’s biggest embezzler of the 20th Century who mysteriously drowned from his yacht, The Ghislaine.
Mack
She has now appealed to the Supreme Court. Must have a lot to hide.
Gadfeal
She is the daughter of Britain’s 20th Century “Madoff”, the most hated man in Britain who peddled influence for any number of spy agencies in exchange for money. For a person fleeing the Nazis into Britain, Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch (the pre-anglicized name of R. Maxwell) screwed anyone he could in his pursuit of fame and fortune.
After he raided The Mirror Newspaper group’s pension fund and the authorities were closing in, any one of those agencies could have arranged his drowning in still waters. Nasty piece of work who took hundreds of millions of pounds from employees’ pensions, and who had not the slightest shred of compunction despite the veneer of a “mover and shaker” of the press. Unlike Madoff’s family, the Maxwell family avoided “claw back” and Ghislaine, her reputation tattered by her father’s demise, decided to try her luck in New York. We know the rest.
On an aside, Maxwell appointed the youngest editor of a Fleet Street “tabloid”, The Sun, Piers Morgan, that silly twit who is a Trumpard and obnoxiously conceited some time judge of talent shows. He was fired by Cowell and ended up as a right wing commentator.
ricdardc1
…..aunt pitty pat, needs her smelling salts. . it’s the end of the world !…..
Jimmynj
Lindsey, if you have nothing to hide, why not appear???? He is a spineless wimp and he should go to jail. At least he won’t have to use his credit card to get dates.
scotty
she/her