Carol C. Lam: Lindsey Graham's Georgia subpoena defense is disturbing. Trump would be proud. - NBCNewsTHINK
But Graham’s response to the subpoena is disturbing. In a broader sense, what’s most troubling is his lack of respect for both the Georgia’s Fulton County district attorney’s office and the Superior Court judges who voted to impanel the special grand jury. Graham himself represents a state — South Carolina — and presumably understands the importance of any state’s ability to investigate alleged malfeasance within its borders.
And the special grand jury’s investigation is neither fanciful nor ungrounded. A presidential candidate — the sitting president of the United States — and his team directly called the officials responsible for counting votes to urge them to change the vote count to benefit the president. That cries out for investigation. Such a call would be irregular in an election for high school class treasurer; it’s wildly inappropriate in a United States presidential election.
Bad conduct by politicians is nothing new, but in recent years one particularly insidious trend has been an erosion of respect by certain politicians for our prosecutorial and judicial institutions. Like Trump, many of our country’s senior leaders now regard our most valued institutions — the press, the courts, government prosecutors — as merely dials they can turn to further their personal or party goals.
Graham's challenge to this subpoena in the courts is the opposite of good faith. It is a delay and distortion tactic, echoing our former president. And that might be Trump’s saddest and most enduring legacy — a group of leaders still in office, destined to repeat his abusive behaviors.Carol C. Lam was a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California and a federal prosecutor for 18 years. She also was a Superior Court judge in San Diego County. She is a legal analyst for MSNBC.
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