The Supreme Court allows a Jan. 6 subpoena for the phone records of Trump ally Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party.
Kelli Ward, chair of the Arizona Republican Party, claimed that the limited request for her phone records, served on her service provider T-Mobile, was a violation of the First Amendment.Kelli Ward, chair of the Arizona Republican Party, claimed that the limited request for her phone records, served on her service provider T-Mobile, was a violation of the First Amendment.The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block a Jan.
Ward is the chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party. She claimed that the limited request for her phone records, served on her service provider T-Mobile, was a violation of the First Amendment. Ward is under scrutiny from the committee largely for her role in the"fake elector" scheme following the 2020 election, in which she and others falsely declared themselves the Arizona electors for the purpose of disrupting election certification. The committee is also scrutinizing Ward's alleged claims that the election in Arizona was"stolen" and"fraudulent."
The Arizona district court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found this argument unpersuasive. The three-member appellate panel, consisting of two Trump appointees and one Clinton appointee, voted 2-1 to require T-Mobile to provide Ward's phone records to the Jan. 6 committee. The majority noted that if the possibility of revealing party affiliation were sufficient to quash subpoenas of call records,"Narcotics traffickers . . .
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