Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was subpoenaed in the unprecedented criminal probe.
in which then-President Donald Trump pleaded with him"to find 11,780 votes," will testify under oath Thursday before a special grand jury investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Those requests could help the special grand jury get a better sense of Trump's intent, according to Melissa Redmon, a University of Georgia law professor and former Fulton County prosecutor. Redmon said Raffensperger will likely be asked questions that"get into the intent of the president." "If the attempt was to falsely claim that Donald Trump won Georgia, but in fact he did not, then part of the overarching case is to show he did not," Redmon said.
"What you have to appreciate is never in the history of our country has a president been investigated in this way for interfering with an election. So it's a case of first impression in many respects," Rucker said."So in my view, from the very beginning, all bets are off. There's no precedent." Kemp and his office have not received subpoenas from the special grand jury, according to a records request, but in February 2021 he was instructed in a letter from Willis to preserve documents and records related to the investigation.