kelly o'donnell covering the supreme court and senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake for us as well. talk about the long term and both sides and interesting decision with justice thomas. >> justice thomas has the responsibility because he oversees the 11th circuit and that covers georgia there is an irony here in that of course his wife ginni thomas has been associated with issues related to the 2020 election, and that is just simply on the side here. but he, by virtue of his overseeing this circuit, is the one who received the emergency application by senator graham, who is asking the court to quash in subpoena, because he is using a privilege with being a senator, which is the speech and debate clause. so things that a senator does in the service of that work to legislate and to make speeches on the floor, and to gather information in the course of their work, can't be questioned about that. and so senator graham is asserting that calls he made to brad raffensperger in georgia, the secretary of state there, were to prepare himself for the votes he would need to take to ultimately approve the electors. and as a part of the work he would do in having to oversee the p