A Georgia prosecutor investigating GOP activities regarding attempts to overturn the 2020 election results asked the Supreme Court not to block a subpoena for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday gave Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis a deadline of Thursday to respond while temporarily pressing pause on the subpoena. This came after the senator filed an emergency request to the high court following the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denying his bid to block a federal court order demanding he deliver grand jury testimony to the Fulton County criminal investigation.

“The Fulton County Special Purpose Grand Jury seeks to question Senator Lindsey Graham regarding certain activities related to its ongoing investigation into possible criminal activity surrounding the 2020 general elections in Georgia,” Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis explained in the new filing, according to CNN.

It remains to be seen what the Supreme Court will do next.

Fulton County prosecutors, led by Willis, have been eager to learn more about calls Graham had with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in the weeks after the 2020 election, among other points of inquiry. They subpoenaed him for testimony earlier this summer, leading to a legal challenge from Graham’s lawyers.

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Graham argues the subpoena is illegitimate because it involves questioning over phone calls he claims are protected under the Constitution’s speech and debate clause, which shields lawmakers from investigations over speech made as part of their legislative duties, according to NBC News. Willis has argued that Graham failed to convince the court that his speech fell under the speech and debate clause.

“Should the senator’s application be granted, the grand jury’s work will be delayed indefinitely, ensuring that information that could either clear the innocent of suspicion or increase scrutiny on the guilty will continue to lie beyond the grand jury’s grasp,” Willis wrote, according to NBC News.

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Willis began the investigation last year following audio that surfaced between Trump and Raffensperger and in which the former president stressed the need to “find” 11,780 votes, enough to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia.

A special grand jury in the matter was impaneled in May.

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