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"Senator Graham plans to go to court, challenge the subpoena,
and expects to prevail," attorneys Bart Daniel and Matt Austin
said in a statement made on behalf of Graham.
They said Graham was "well within his rights to discuss with
state officials the processes and procedures around
administering elections."
The grand jury also subpoenaed members of Trump's former legal
team, including personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
The grand jury was selected in May to consider evidence in a
probe launched after Trump was recorded in a Jan. 2, 2021, phone
call pressuring Georgia's secretary of state to overturn the
state's election results based on his claims of voter fraud.
Trump has denied wrongdoing in the phone call.
Graham's attorneys said in the statement that the senator was
being called as "simply a witness" in what they called "a
fishing expedition."
"Any information from an interview or deposition with Senator
Graham would immediately be shared with the January 6
Committee," they said.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who convened the
grand jury probe, said in an interview on Wednesday more
subpoenas for additional Trump associates should be expected and
declined to rule out a subpoena for Trump himself.
Asked if that would also include Trump family members or former
White House officials, she told MSNBC: "We'll just have to see
where the investigation leads us," calling it a "very serious"
matter.
"We're going to do our due diligence in making sure that we look
at all aspects of the case," she said.
(Reporting by Katharine Jackson in Washington; Additional
reporting by Karen Freifeld and Susan Heavey; Editing by Andy
Sullivan and Matthew Lewis)
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