Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp appeared Tuesday before an Atlanta-area grand jury investigating interference in the 2020 election, marking a major resumption of the panel's public work following a pause in the run-up to last week's midterm elections.
Prosecutors were expected to question Kemp about Trump and his allies' calls for a special session of the state Legislature in an effort to overturn the statewide 2020 vote for President Joe Biden. Kemp, the highest ranking public official to testify in the inquiry so far, had sought to avoid a subpoena, arguing that Willis was pursuing him for “improper political purposes.”
The governor's attorneys had asserted that local prosecutors “engineered the governor’s interaction with the investigation to reach a crescendo in the middle of an election cycle," prompting a local judge to delay. "The Governor must honor the subpoena – as have the Secretary of State and the Attorney General and many other agents of the State in these criminal proceedings," Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled in August.
Willis had previously indicated that she had planned on reaching a decision on possible prosecutions by year's end. So far, prosecutors have identified more than a dozen people as potential targets of the inquiry, including a group who served as alternate Trump electors in Georgia and Rudy Guiliani, the former president's personal attorney.
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