The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request by Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward to block her phone records from being subpoenaed by the select House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The denial sets the stage for the House committee to obtain those records from her T-Mobile account.
The order rejecting Ward’s request for an emergency injunction notes that Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have granted it.
Justice Elena Kagan last month had temporarily blocked the subpoena to allow for her and the other justices to consider the request.
Ward had her records subpoenaed by the committee because of her role as a so-called alternate elector for then-President Donald Trump, who lost Arizona’s popular vote in the 2020 election, and hence its slate of actual Electoral College members. President Joe Biden won the state’s popular vote and its electors.
The Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol by Trump supporters disrupted for hours a joint session of Congress that was meeting to certify the results of the Electoral College vote in favor of Biden.
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