Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Campaign 2020 J6: Putting it all together

So, what's this all about?

In November 2020, after the November 3rd election, Lindsey Graham got on the phone with GOP Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his deputy Gabriel Sterling, and was just curious if maybe Georgia could throw out ALL THE LEGALLY CAST MAIL-IN VOTES in counties that have higher rates of signature mismatches on ballots.

Per The Atlanta Journal-Constitution over the 4th of July 2022 weekend Rudy Giuliani, Lindsey Graham, and John Eastman received subpoenas to testify in the Fulton County Grand Jury investigation of Trump and his lackeys trying to overturn the results of the Georgia vote in Trump's favor.

Remember all of those "perfect calls?" There's Trump's perfect call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, where he begged Raffensperger to "find" him 11,780 votes so he could win Georgia. There's Trump's perfect call with Frances Watson, the lead investigator in Raffensperger's office, where Trump nudged her like a common mob boss in the direction of the county where Trump wanted them to "find" him all these votes. There's Lindsey Graham's perfect call to Raffensperger not long after the election. There's the very abrupt quit-firing of former US Attorney Byung J. "Bjay" Pak, apparently for his refusal to find Trump some imaginary voter fraud.

According to Raffensperger, Graham asked him, in essence, to "look hard and see how many ballots you could throw out." Lindsey Graham was looking for ways to throw legal ballots in the trash - ballots where voters had chosen Joe Biden.

Lindsey has denied any impropriety, naturally, but he's never been able to explain why he called Brad Raffensperger in the first place, and saying he just wanted to understand how ballot verification works does not pass the smell test. He also has not offered a good explanation for why also called the elections officials in Arizona and Nevada, which just happen to be two more of the states Joe Biden flipped to win the election in a landslide.


At first, Graham's attorneys insisted that Miss Lindsey doesn't have to comply with the subpoena, because Lady G doesn't think Fulton County DA Fani Willis's investigation is legitimate.

Then, Miss Lindsey argued that he was just doing his job as a senator and thus can't be investigated for it under the Speech or Debate clause.

Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney then ordered Graham to knock off the shenanigans and testify, writing that the "court finds that Lindsey Graham is a necessary and material witness" in the grand jury's investigation.

Graham then moved the case to federal court and tried to get the subpoena quashed based on the Speech or Debate clause, arguing that he was just doing his legislative duty to ensure that the ballots were correctly tabulated.

US District Judge Leigh Martin May ordered Graham to get his skinny ass to Atlanta and start talking for the grand jury empaneled by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, and told Lady G that that's now how speech or debate works. (more or less, I'm paraphrasing )

I hope this post has gotten you up to speed of an honest Republican Senator avoiding a subpoena that is simply asking him to be a witness (for now).