WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Courtroom Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday quickly blocked Sen. Lindsey Graham’s testimony to a particular grand jury investigating whether or not then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to affect the 2020 election within the state.
Thomas’ order is meant to stop Fani Willis, Fulton County district lawyer, from compelling Graham to testify whereas the Supreme Courtroom weighs the senator’s request for a lengthier halt to the proceedings.
Willis has a deadline Thursday to inform the excessive courtroom why Graham ought to need to reply the grand jury’s questions. Decrease courts have dominated that his testimony can happen.
Thomas acted on his personal, because the justice who handles emergency appeals from Georgia.