A US federal judge on Sunday dismissed a request by the Republican National Committee to block a subpoena asking its email vendor to release records to the congressional panel investigating the 6 January 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
The case centres around a subpoena issued to Salesforce Inc.Proud Boys member Louis Enrique Colon pleads guilty to obstructing police at US Capitol riot
The select committee said it wanted to understand the flow of emails from the RNC in the weeks before the attack on the Capitol that say the 2020 election was stolen. However, the judge also temporarily barred Salesforce from releasing any records to the 6 January committee until 5 May, giving the RNC time to appeal.
The RNC had claimed that the subpoena was a"fishing expedition" that would"chill the RNC and its supporters' First Amendment rights".
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