Attorney who aided Trump's election efforts sues Jan. 6 committee over phone records
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An attorney who assisted with Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election has filed suit against the Jan. 6 committee to block the release of her phone records.
A Washington, D.C., lobbyist and attorney who assisted with former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election filed suit this week against the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, to block the release of her phone records.
Katherine Friess filed her lawsuit in federal court in Colorado against the committee and AT&T, which alerted her earlier this month of the committee's subpoena.
According to an affidavit included in the filing obtained by ABC News, Friess identifies herself as having volunteered as an "election integrity attorney, observing ballot counting, for the 2020 national elections" and later having served as a "staff attorney on the personal legal team of President Donald J. Trump" from November 2020 to January of 2021.
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, who worked with ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the Trump campaign to identify voting irregularities after the election, previously told The Daily Beast that Friess "assisted in the preparation of legal documents, interviews, and reviewed affidavits; and coordinated travel, legislative hearings and meetings, as directed by the mayor or myself."
