Tag Archives: Lindsey Graham

Law & Crime reports: Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Friday submitted a reply brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case which seeks to excuse him from testifying about his telephone calls surrounding the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. In the reply brief, Graham reiterated the argument that he “shall not be questioned.” The reply brief continued to …

“What is this all about? Why Herschel? They’re beating all of our guys up, but what is it about this guy? He changes the entire narrative of the left. “We’re a party of racists, Sean. Me and you are racists, the Republican Party is racist. Well what happens when the Republican party elects and nominates Herschel Walker, an African American, …

Reuters reports: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas temporarily blocked a lower court’s order requiring Senator Lindsey Graham to testify to a grand jury in Georgia investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies attempted to overturn 2020 election results in the state. Thomas granted the Republican senator’s request to halt the lower court’s decision pending a further order to …

CNN reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham asked the Supreme Court on Friday to block a subpoena from the Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. The South Carolina Republican filed the emergency request at the high court after the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower-court judge on Thursday that the …

The Washington Post reports: Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) must appear before a Georgia grand jury investigating possible attempts by former president Donald Trump and his allies to disrupt the state’s 2020 presidential election, a federal appeals court said Thursday. Graham’s lawyers had asked the court to block a subpoena from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D), claiming that …

The Hill reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday blamed the media for circulating recent allegations that Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker paid a former girlfriend to get an abortion, comparing the claims to the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. “If you’re waiting on the media to tell you about what’s going on in Georgia, you’re …

Congress Minutes reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told police officers who responded to the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, that they should have shot rioters “in the head,” according to a new book by former D.C. police officer Michael Fanone. “You guys should have shot them all in the head,” Fanone recalled Graham telling the group of officers during …

The Hill reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) feuded with billionaire Elon Musk over the SpaceX CEO’s proposed solution to ending the war in Ukraine in a Twitter thread on Wednesday. Musk asked his more than 100 million followers on Monday to weigh in on his peace proposal, which includes giving the Crimean Peninsula to Russia and holding new elections in …

The Daily Beast reports: Asked by anchor Martha MacCallum on Fox News Thursday afternoon what he would tell fellow Republicans who are “not happy” and want to him to “be quiet” and wait until after the midterms to push his national abortion ban, Graham replied, “You’re naive.” He then added, “We owe it to the American people to tell them …

The Independent reports: In their upcoming book The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021, authors Peter Baker and Susan Glasser recall how they met with Mr Graham outside a Washington DC steakhouse. Standing on the sidewalk on 19th Street, Mr Graham bragged about his access to Trump. He said Mr Trump had told him: “Those fucking Christians love me”. …

Axios reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called his friend Donald Trump “a lying mother—-er” but “a lot of fun to hang out with,” according to “The Divider,” by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, out next Tuesday. Graham said it with “a what-can-you-do shrug,” the authors report — the mindset of so many Trump allies and enablers. The big picture: “The …

“I am 100 percent pro-life. I am outspokenly pro-life. I’m so pro-life that I’ll debate anybody on the topic anytime. The only exception I could possibly imagine is the life of the mother, and I will defend that position morally, scientifically, biologically, and philosophically. “Why is Lindsey Graham, 25 days out from ballots going out, galloping in and saying we …

The New York Times reports: Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina introduced legislation on Tuesday that would institute a federal ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, moving to unite the Republican Party behind a position before midterm elections in which abortion rights have become a potent issue. There is no chance that Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New …

The Guardian reports: Previous versions of the bill have outlawed abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, but Sen. Lindsey Graham is now expected to propose a ban that takes effect after 15 weeks. That would align federal law with Florida, which outlaws the procedure after the same period of time, with some medical exceptions. The GOP is in an uncertain …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s promise to grant pardons to the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is running into strong opposition from Senate Republicans. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of Trump’s closest allies, told The Hill that granting pardons to Jan. 6 protesters is “a bad idea.” “Pardons are given to people who admit misconduct, …

CNBC reports: Lindsey Graham on Saturday defended suggesting there would be “riots in the streets” if former President Donald Trump was prosecuted for mishandling classified information, saying he condemned the violence seen during the Capitol riot last year. “What I tried to do was state the obvious,” Graham, a South Carolina Republican and close ally of Trump, told CNBC’s Steve …

Raw Story reports: A judge has again denied Sen. Lindsey Graham’ efforts to avoid testifying before a Georgia grand jury, but agreed to set some limits to the questions. District Court judge Leigh Martin May disagreed that the senator’s calls to Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger and other officials were undertaken as part of his official legislative duty and …

CNN reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham continued to argue in a court filing Wednesday that a Fulton County subpoena for his testimony in the investigation into plots to illegally influence Georgia’s 2020 election results should be quashed or, at the very least, heavily limited in scope. In the filing, Graham, a South Carolina Republican, argued that the topics Fulton County District …

The Hill reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday warned of “riots in the streets” if former President Trump is prosecuted for his handling of classified materials found when the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago home. “If there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information, after the Clinton debacle… there’ll be riots in the streets,” Graham told former South …

Law & Crime reports: South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R), facing a subpoena from Georgia state investigators about his alleged role in Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, says that the Constitution protects him from questions about interactions he had with election officials from the Peach State. Graham had initially argued that both sovereign …