Judge: Jan. 6 committee can see state GOP leader's phone records

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U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa rejected the arguments that the subpoena lacks a valid legislative purpose made byKelli Ward, head of the Arizona Republican Party.

PHOENIX — The House committee investigating the events around the Jan. 6 riot is entitled to get the phone records of the head of the Arizona Republican Party, a federal judge has ruled.

The judge was no more impressed by Ward's arguments that the subpoena will endanger not only her rights but those of the entire Arizona Republican Party. Kolodin also argued that because the House panel is controlled by Democrats that it would use the information in the phone records"to harass or persecute political rivals by inquiring into their dealings with the party chair.''

The judge also said she was not buying arguments that the records from any phones that Ward and her husband were using — both are doctors — would violate the rights of their patients who used those numbers to contact them. She said the House panel was not seeking confidential contents of any patient's medical records.

"That date range was specifically designed to obtain information referring are relating to activities surrounding the 2020 presidential election, including false assertions that the election had been stolen and actions related to the appointment of an alternative slate of electors from Arizona,'' he said. And Letter told Humetewa those are"activities that directly concerned the Jan. 6 attack.

 

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