A prosecutor in Georgia investigating possible crimes related to the 2020 presidential election is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow questioning of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
Graham cannot show that he’s likely to suffer irreparable harm, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat, told the nation’s top court, pointing to rulings against Graham on the district and appeals court levels.
“In the course of several months of litigation, the district court has observed that Senator Graham has ‘misconstrued’ its holdings, ‘plainly misrepresented’ Supreme Court analysis, ‘misunderstood’ or attempted to ‘avoid the objective facts,’ ‘dismissed’ inconvenient facts as ‘irrelevant,’ and advanced arguments ‘bereft of any meaningful support,’” Willis wrote in a brief to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “The Eleventh Circuit then observed that the Senator has argued that he should be afforded legislative immunity for actions that ‘could not qualify as legislative activities under any understanding of Supreme Court precedent.’”…