Former Trump aide Stephen Miller is suing the House of Representatives select committee investigating the Capitol riot in a bid to block its subpoena of his phone records.
Mr Miller was a senior adviser for policy and White House director of speechwriting for former President Donald Trump. He is known for far-right politics and anti-immigration stance.
Not just a close adviser of the former president, Mr Miller wrote the remarks Mr Trump delivered at the rally at the Ellipse on 6 January, before many in the crowd descended on the US Capitol.
The suit says that the select committee issued a subpoena on 22 February to T-Mobile requiring that subscriber information for “Carron Drive Apartments LP” be provided to the committee.
Specifically, T-Mobile is asked to provide information related to Mr Miller’s number under a family plan account including his parents and siblings.
The request is for a three-month period from 1 November 2020 through 31 January 2021.
According to the suit, the subpoena “may improperly disclose information to persons who are interested in merely making partisan points or harassing Mr Miller”.
It also says the request by the committee is overly broad given that Mr Miller’s account is part of a phone plan shared with his family, arguing that data may be produced relating to other members of the account.
Mr Miller’s lawyers asked that the committee clarify that it only seeks records associated with his number and not others but that “clarification was not forthcoming by the deadline established by T-Mobile’s notice to Carron Drive”.
The suit further states that Carron Drive is a real estate company in California and that Mr Miller used the phone number for both personal and business communications during the period the committee is interested in.
This included consultations with doctors regarding serious medical complications relating to his wife and the birth of their baby daughter on 19 November 2020. It states that these “sensitive, private matter are entirely irrelevant to the work of the select committee”.
The 15-page document ends with a request to the court to declare that the subpoena from the committee is unlawful and unenforceable.
