The beat goes on in the never-ending lawfare surrounding questioning the results of the 2020 election.
Now it's hitting two members of Congress.
Investigators are looking into alternate electors' questions during the 2020 election results. And they've now issued subpoenas to two people who have been close to former President Donald Trump.
The subpoenas to Reps. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, which have not previously been reported, ordered the two Arizona Republicans to testify before a grand jury.
Politico notes there's no indication that either member of Congress is being looked into for any criminal conduct, and they may have legal justification to resist testifying. But this news will doubtless make the left happy in any event.
It's not clear if they will be complying or whether they will be pursued to do so in the matter by the state's attorney general.
But it looks like the Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes may be trying to drag who she can into the case.
Details of Mayes’ probe have remained opaque, due in part to Arizona’s unusually strict — and, according to some experts, constitutionally dubious — state law banning witnesses from disclosing the fact that they have been subpoenaed.
“Getting a subpoena to testify in front of a grand jury is kind of rare,” said Jared Keenan, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona. “And that’s why I think no one has challenged the secrecy law.”
Seven states had slates of alternate electors and prosecutors have been pursuing criminal actions against such electors in Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada. Mayes has sent out a lot of subpoenas in her case, and may be moving toward a prosecution in Arizona as well.
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