Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis, who’s main the investigation into former President Donald Trump‘s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, wrote in court docket filings that she needs to query the senator on telephone calls he made to Georgia election officers.

US District Decide Leigh Martin Might initially rejected Graham’s movement to quash the subpoena however was ordered by an appeals court docket to revisit the movement and decide if the subpoena must be partially quashed to adjust to a clause within the US Structure, shielding lawmakers from some regulation enforcement actions with regards to their legislative duties.

Might wrote that “Graham could also be questioned about any alleged efforts to encourage Secretary Raffensperger or others to throw out ballots or in any other case alter Georgia’s election practices and procedures.”

“The Courtroom finds no help for the suggestion that Sen. Graham’s place or obligations as a US senator entitled him to exhort or stress Georgia state election officers as to how they need to change or in any other case administer their state’s election legal guidelines and procedures,” the choose concluded.

Willis mentioned in court docket filings that Graham’s actions seem interconnected with the previous President, and that the grand jury wanted to listen to from the senator particularly about at the least two telephone calls he made to Raffensperger and his workers within the wake of the 2020 election.

Raffensperger, Georgia’s prime election official who’s up for reelection this November, was the primary witness to testify in entrance of the Particular Objective Grand Jury in Might. He informed CNN in November 2020 that the South Carolina senator — who was then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee — hinted that Raffensperger ought to attempt to discard some Georgia ballots throughout a statewide audit.

“He requested if the ballots might be matched again to the voters,” Raffensperger informed CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The State of affairs Room” days after the 2020 election. “After which he — I received the sense it implied that then you may throw these out for any, if you happen to have a look at the counties with the best frequent error of signatures. So that is the impression that I received.”‘

“It was simply an implication of, ‘Look onerous and see what number of ballots you may throw out,'” Raffensperger added.

Graham has repeatedly denied accusations of making use of any stress to Georgia officers, and the senator and his legal professionals argue that he was merely doing his job as a lawmaker within the aftermath of the election.

Might’s Thursday order now returns the case from her court docket to be reviewed as soon as once more by a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Courtroom of Appeals.