Former President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, will have to testify before a grand jury about efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election in the state of Georgia, where Democrat Joe Biden won.
In a ruling on Tuesday, the South Carolina Supreme Court rejected Meadows’ request to avoid filing a statement and forced him to to testify before the grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia, which is investigating the case.
The five justices of the Court considered that Meadows’ request lacked merit after reviewing the arguments presented.
Last week, another close Trump aide, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, finally testified before the same grand jury after months trying to avoid it through court battles.
Graham had filed a petition with the Supreme Court to avoid appearing before the jury of A Atlanta, but the highest US court overturned his attempt.
The case is part of the investigations in Georgia into whether Trump and other people, including Meadows and Graham, pressured the political representatives of that regarding the results of the elections of 2020.
Trump denounced, without evidence, a massive electoral fraud that gave victory to Biden and a horde of supporters of the Republican stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to stop the ratification of the Democrat’s victory.
In Georgia and other US states, special grand juries cannot issue criminal indictments, but they do have the power to demand the appearance of witnesses under judicial summons and the transfer of documents, within a process that takes place in secret.
At the end of their mission, this type of jury, made up of between 16 Y 23 people, issue a report with their conclusions and sometimes recommend some measures, but it is up to the prosecutors to decide whether or not to prosecute, something for which they would need to present evidence to another grand jury.
With information of EFE
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