The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol to get phone records from the chair of the Arizona Republican Party — even as the panel’s most high-profile potential witness, former President Donald Trump, appeared out of reach.
The high court, in a brief unsigned order, declined a request from Kelli Ward to pause enforcement of the committee subpoena while her appeal worked its way through the courts.
The committee had sent T-Mobile a subpoena for Ward’s phone records in January, which Ward and her husband challenged through the courts for the last nine months. While she argued that the subpoena would have a chilling effect on her First Amendment rights, lower courts did not stop the request.
