A federal judge cleared the way for the Jan. 6 committee to access the phone records of Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward, tossing Ward’s lawsuit to block a committee subpoena.
A judge said the Jan. 6 committee has a legitimate reason to obtain Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward’s call logs during the weeks between Election Day 2020 and the end of Donald Trump’s term in office. |Ross D. Franklin | APA federal judge has cleared the way for the Jan. 6 select committee to access the phone records of Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward, dismissing Ward’s lawsuit to block aissued late Thursday, Arizona-based U.S.
It’s unclear whether Ward intends to appeal the ruling. An attorney for her did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In her lawsuit, Ward had argued that the select committee’s subpoena was improperly issued because the panel lacked a valid legislative purpose — rather that it was a law enforcement investigation in disguise — and that the panel lacked the required 13 members that it was supposed to include. Ward argued that the committee’s subpoena was really an effort to harass Trump supporters for exercising their First Amendment rights to petition the government and raise doubts about the election results.
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