A judge in Georgia on Aug. 29 denied Gov. Brian Kemp’s motion to quash a subpoena for him to testify before the special purpose grand jury in the probe of the 2020 election.
Robert McBurney, a Superior Court of Fulton County judge, denied Kemp’s motion, which invoked sovereign immunity and claimed that the Superior Court of Fulton County did not have jurisdiction to issue or enforce the subpoena.
“The Court finds that it does enjoy jurisdiction and that the subpoena should not be quashed,” the judge wrote in the ruling.
However, McBurney delayed the governor’s appearance before the grand jury to a date “soon after the 8 November 2022 general election,” in which Kemp will face Democrat Stacey Abrams….