Quick Glance: Judge Orders Lindsey Graham to Testify in Georgia Election Probe
- Lindsey Graham is required to testify before a special grand jury in Atlanta, which is looking into whether then-President Donald Trump and his associates committed any laws when attempting to overturn his narrow 2020 general election loss in the state.
- Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis launched the inquiry last year, and at her request, a special grand jury with subpoena power was convened in May.
- Graham stated that a section of the Constitution guarantees senators unlimited immunity from being questioned about legislative acts.
- However, the judge determined that there are "considerable areas of potential grand jury inquiry" that lie outside the scope of that clause.
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Quick Glance: Sen. Lindsey Graham will appeal a Georgia grand jury subpoena in the Trump election meddling investigation.
- Lindsey Graham of South Carolina will fight a grand jury subpoena seeking his testimony as part of an investigation into possible criminal interference in Georgia's 2020 election by former President Donald Trump and his allies, his attorneys said Wednesday. Fulton County, Georgia, investigators have told them that Graham, a Trump ally, is "neither a subject nor target of the investigation, simply a witness," his attorneys said.
- "Senator Graham plans to go to court, challenge the subpoena, and expects to prevail."
- "All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes," Trump told Raffensperger.
“Maybe they were just trying to intimidate me and cajole me into something. It wasn’t going to happen.”
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Quick Glance: Bee Nguyen has won the Democratic runoff primary for Secretary of State in Georgia.
- Nguyen, 40, has been an outspoken voting rights advocate, particularly for ethnic minorities and immigrants, since her election to the California House in 2017.
- If Nguyen wins the general election on November 8, she will be Georgia's first Asian American elected to a statewide political position.
- The number of AAPI voters in Georgia increased by 84% between the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.
- Nguyen previously told NBC Asian America that she chose to run for secretary of state during the Georgia House hearings on Republicans' claims of voter fraud in the presidential election in December 2020.
Quick Glance: Ex-Watergate prosecutor says Trump has "zero" defense in Georgia.
- Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman said on Sunday that former President Donald Trump had "zero" defense against a criminal investigation into his activities in connection with the 2020 election results in Georgia.
- During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," Akerman stated that the former president's defense was poor while a Fulton County grand jury investigated suspected election tampering.
- "If I had to put my money on one prosecution that's going to go forward here that will send Donald Trump to jail — it's Georgia."
- Trump went to his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday to denounce the investigation into his behavior toward Georgia officials following the 2020 election.
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Quick Glance: Raffensperger wins the Georgia Secretary of State primary: the results
- Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who refused to assist former President Donald Trump in overturning now-President Joe Biden's 2020 victory in Georgia and has maintained that election's integrity, won the Republican primary for re-election.
- Rep. Raffensperger was defeated.During an unusual phone call in January 2021, Trump begged Raffensperger to "find" additional votes to help him overcome Biden's roughly 12,000-vote victory in the Southern swing state.
- Democrats are mostly unified in their opposition to SB 202, commonly known as the Election Integrity Act of 2021, which tightened election laws in the state by, among other things, limiting drop boxes and stiffening voter identification requirements.
Quick Glance: Who is Wandrea ArShaye 'Shaye' Moss, and why is she testifying before the committee on January 6?
- They pointed to a video posted by a conservative political action committee that purported to show election workers, including Moss and her mother, stuffing ballots into "suitcases."
- , stated at the June 21 hearing.
- Moss testified on June 21 that she became an election worker because her family had always underlined the importance of voting, a right that her grandmother frequently pointed out was not available to previous generations.
- When Schiff inquired how many people remained on the job after the 2020 election, Moss replied that no permanent election worker or supervisor remained on the job, including herself.
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Quick Glance: A judge has ruled that Marjorie Taylor Greene did not engage in an insurgency on January 6.
- A Georgia administrative law judge ruled that Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is seeking a second term, should remain on the ballot.
- Last month, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene campaigned for J.D. Vance in Ohio.
- "Greene engaged in months of planning and plotting to bring about the Invasion and defeat the orderly transfer of power provided for in our Constitution," stated Judge Beaudrot.
- A spokeswoman for Georgia's top elections official, Mr. Raffensperger, a Republican, said in an email on Friday that he had received Judge Beaudrot's verdict and would make a decision soon.
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Quick Glance: The Abrams-Kemp slugfest promises to be expensive, lengthy, and ugly.
- Kemp, Perdue, Abrams, and their allies spent almost $20 million on the primary.
- "This is going to be an expensive race," warned Abrams.
- A more fractious Republican primary could have aided Abrams even more.
- Kemp, for example, must rally the support of the more than 250,000 people who voted for Perdue.
Quick Glance: Texans are being encouraged to conserve energy as temperatures reach 100 degrees in some areas.
- After six power plants went offline unexpectedly Friday, and with hot weather expected across Texas this weekend, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas asked consumers to conserve electricity through Sunday on Friday evening.
- A spokeswoman for ERCOT, which operates the state's major power grid, told The Texas Tribune that he does not anticipate any power outages this weekend.
- ERCOT stated that Texans can save money on power throughout the summer by not using it in the late afternoon hours, when demand normally peaks.
- According to the agency, all reserve power was operational to maintain the grid.