Arizona GOP Chair Loses Court Battle On Phone Records

September 23, 2022 Republicans, Trump cultists

A federal judge in Arizona ruled Thursday that the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol can see the phone records of Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward and her husband.

U.S. District Court Judge Diane J. Humetewa rejected the Wards’ arguments in a February lawsuit that the congressional panel should be prevented from getting the phone records of the couple, who are doctors, because it would violate medical privacy laws.

In January, the state GOP chair and her husband, Michael Ward, were among 14 of 84 so-called alternate electors subpoenaed by the committee because they had claimed in bogus documents that then-President Donald Trump had won the 2020 election in their states.

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Federal judge rules that the House Jan. 6 committee can see the phone records of Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward and her husband. https://t.co/B7uOQYAZC7

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