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The brief order noted that lower courts had “assumed that the informal investigative fact-finding that Sen. Graham assertedly engaged in constitutes legislative activity,” which is protected under the law.

Rather, it concerns what these interviews force him to conclude about himself and his assertedly individualistic worldview.

It was done, the filing says, “to ensure that federal officers or agents shall not be forced to answer for conduct assertedly within their duty in any court except a federal court.”