Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward asks Supreme Court to block Jan. 6 committee subpoena for phone records
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Washington — Arizona Republican Party chairwoman Kelli Ward asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to block a subpoena for her phone records issued by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
In an emergency request to Justice Elena Kagan, who oversees applications from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, Ward argued the subpoena from the House panel is a "first-of-its-kind situation" involving a request for phone records from the head of a state party chair, sought by a congressional committee largely composed of members from the rival party.
"If Dr. Ward's telephone and text message records are disclosed, congressional investigators are going to contact every person who communicated with her during and immediately after the tumult of the 2020 election. That is not speculation, it is a certainty. There is no other reason for the committee to seek this information," Ward's lawyers wrote. "There can be no greater chill on public participation in partisan politics than a call, visit, or subpoena, from federal investigators."
