Arizona GOP Chair Begs SCOTUS To Shield Her Phone

October 26, 2022 Republicans, Trump cultists

Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to prevent her phone records from being disclosed to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot.

The state GOP chair and her husband, Michael Ward, were among 14 of 84 so-called alternate electors subpoenaed earlier this year by the House Jan. 6 committee, citing their association with bogus documents claiming that then-President Donald Trump had won the 2020 election in their states.

Lower courts, including the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, rejected Ward’s arguments that the subpoena issued by the committee should be blocked.

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Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward asks Supreme Court to block release of phone records to Jan. 6 committee: https://t.co/zNXMIKKyEL

— Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley) October 26, 2022