Lindsey Graham Begs Clarence Thomas to Save Him From Georgia Criminal Probe
On Friday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) requested Clarence Thomas to assist him out after a decrease court docket ordered him to testify earlier than a particular grand jury in Georgia, investigating Donald Trump and different Republicans’ attainable unlawful interference with the 2020 election.
Graham’s legal professional, former White Home counsel Don McGahn, despatched Thomas a 33 web page software asking for an emergency keep.
Thomas takes emergency requests relating to the eleventh Circuit. The South Carolina Republican has each motive to hope Thomas, whose spouse Ginny Thomas was part of Trump’s try to steal the election from the voters, will help him in his try to dodge the regulation. Thomas’ spouse Ginni not too long ago repeated the false Trump declare that the 2020 election was stolen from him throughout testimony to the January sixth Committee on September 29, 2022.
The conservative-activist Supreme Courtroom has been deeply harmed by Justice Thomas and his spouse’s actions and activism on behalf of assorted conservative causes, together with Ginni’s alleged participation within the plot to steal the election and Thomas’ refusal to recuse on issues through which his spouse seems to be deeply concerned.
Simply yesterday, the eleventh Circuit Courtroom of Appeals rejected Graham’s protection that the 2 cellphone calls he made which gave the impression to be election interference for Trump was “protected congressional speech” and ordered him to testify within the Georgia prison investigation of Trump, as a result of “Because the court docket decided, there may be vital dispute about whether or not his cellphone calls with Georgia election officers have been legislative investigations in any respect.”
As we identified in these pages yesterday, “Sen. Graham is a senator within the minority energy with no energy to direct or lead a committee that will examine the 2020 election, his declare of legislatively protected speech was all the time flimsy at greatest.”
Moreover, in response to the Georgia Republican Secretary of State, Graham referred to as to ask him if he had the facility to toss out ballots primarily based on the state’s signature matching requirement.
Will Clarence Thomas decrease himself even additional to assist a member of his spouse’s criminally-minded election theft mob? It stays to be seen, however it doesn’t matter what, it’s been a foul week for Trump’s election theft mob.
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