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Lindsey Graham makes a mockery of the Constitution’s ‘speech and debate’ clause.
“No man is above the law” is a concept long at the heart of American jurisprudence. But now there’s Senator Lindsey Graham, former Trump opponent turned sycophant, doing his best to prove that adage wrong.
The South Carolina Republican is pulling out all the legal stops to convince a federal judge that he’s oh-so-special. So special in fact that a mere appearance before a grand jury in Fulton County, Ga., would violate the Constitution’s free speech and debate clause, which was designed to shield members of Congress from unnecessary intrusions into their legislative activities.
The showdown with the special grand jury that Graham is trying so desperately to avoid involves two phone calls he made in the wake of President Trump’s electoral defeat in November of 2020 to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — calls Raffensperger has said publicly (and presumably to the grand jury) he found deeply troubling. Raffensperger, a Republican, was also on the receiving end of a phone call from Trump himself on Jan. 2, 2021, in which Trump asked the secretary if he could just “find” an additional 11,780 votes. That conversation became part of a second Trump impeachment proceeding.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/26/opinion/trump-sycophant-seeks-shelter-grand-jury-probe/
“No man is above the law” is a concept long at the heart of American jurisprudence. But now there’s Senator Lindsey Graham, former Trump opponent turned sycophant, doing his best to prove that adage wrong.
The South Carolina Republican is pulling out all the legal stops to convince a federal judge that he’s oh-so-special. So special in fact that a mere appearance before a grand jury in Fulton County, Ga., would violate the Constitution’s free speech and debate clause, which was designed to shield members of Congress from unnecessary intrusions into their legislative activities.
The showdown with the special grand jury that Graham is trying so desperately to avoid involves two phone calls he made in the wake of President Trump’s electoral defeat in November of 2020 to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — calls Raffensperger has said publicly (and presumably to the grand jury) he found deeply troubling. Raffensperger, a Republican, was also on the receiving end of a phone call from Trump himself on Jan. 2, 2021, in which Trump asked the secretary if he could just “find” an additional 11,780 votes. That conversation became part of a second Trump impeachment proceeding.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/26/opinion/trump-sycophant-seeks-shelter-grand-jury-probe/
