The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for a congressional panel to obtain phone records from Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward, rejecting her request to block a subpoena issued in the investigation into the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack by former President Donald Trump's supporters.
Trump, who is considering another run for the presidency in 2024, has accused the panel of waging unfair political attacks on him.
The records of the calls and text exchanges sought by the lawmakers spanned from Nov. 1, 2020, to Jan. 30, 2021, and covered a period when Ward was part of a group of Republicans who falsely presented themselves as Arizona's presidential electors. The potential use of false electors was part of a scheme to foil congressional certification of the election results.
The House committee also has subpoenaed Ward herself as one in a group of people who it said had knowledge of or participated in efforts to send false "alternate electors" to Washington for Trump as Congress prepared to certify the election results. Ward and her husband, Michael Ward, both signed their names on one of the slates of alternate electors for Trump.
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