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special grand jury in Fulton County called on Hice, a Georgia
Republican, to appear on Tuesday, according to court and
congressional documents first reported on by Politico and the
Associated Press earlier on Monday.
Representatives for Fulton County did not immediately respond to
a request for comment, nor did Hice's office. The lawmaker
notified Congress about the request on Friday and is seeking to
have the matter transferred to federal court, filings showed.
The Georgia probe is one of the most serious cases facing Trump,
who was recorded in a Jan. 2 phone call pressuring a top state
official to "find" enough votes to overturn his loss to
President Joe Biden in the state.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing and blasted the probe as
politically motivated. He has argued that he lost the 2020
election because of widespread voter fraud - an allegation that
has been rejected in multiple court decisions, a number of
Republican audits and by the Department of Justice.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is leading the
probe for the state's most populous county, has also warned some
Republicans that they could face indictments for their role in
efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, Yahoo News
reported.
The Department of Justice has separately been investigating an
alleged plan by Trump and his supporters to overturn the
election.
A U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating Trump
supporters' Jan. 6, 2021, deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol has
also focused on Trump's actions in Georgia.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey in Washington; Additional reporting
by Moira Warburton and Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by
Matthew Lewis)
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