Washington – Stephen Miller, who served as former adviser to former President Donald Trump, is suing the select committee of the House to investigate the Assault on January 6 at the United States Capitol in an effort to block the execution of a subpoena for your cell phone records.
Miller’s lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Washington’s federal district court, states that T-Mobile received the subpoena on Feb. 22 for information on subscribers and records of phone calls and text messages since Nov. 1. 2020 through January 31, 2021 for the phone number assigned to Miller’s cell phone.
Miller’s phone is part of a family plan account with his parents that is in the hands of Carron Drive Apartments LP, a California limited company formed in August 1997, according to his lawsuit. T-Mobile notified Carron Drive in late February that it had received a subpoena from the House panel for Miller’s phone information and intends to comply with it unless Carron Drive seeks a court order to prevent it. to hand over the records to the researchers.
“Carron Drive and Mr. Miller have filed this complaint for protection from this court against the select committee’s intrusive and unwarranted attempt to violate the privacy rights that Mr. Miller and potentially other members of the The Miller family is in charge of the family plan, “he said.
Miller claimed the House panel did not have the authority to obtain his telephone records and called the citation “too broad.” The request, he continued, “seeks information that is unrelated to the purposes for which Congress established the select committee” and violates its First and Fourth Amendment rights.
Trump’s ex-adviser argued that he used his cell phone for “personal and business communications” during the three-month period identified in the citation, including consulting with medical professionals about “serious medical complications his wife experienced. and her daughter before and after her “birth of her daughter” was born in November 2020.
“These medical consultations involved delicate and private matters that are totally irrelevant to the work of the Selective Committee,” he said.
Miller also told the court that several members of the plan account are lawyers who use their phones for privileged calls and text messages with clients.
“The president and the select committee are misusing their authority to investigate political adversaries, painting their opposition with a broad brush like insurgents and national terrorists,” he argued. “The select committee cannot prove a compelling justification to justify such interference.”
Miller joins a group of people close to Trump whose phone records have been searched by the House select committee and who have filed lawsuits to block citations from their phone providers. In January, Sebastian Gorka, conservative radio presenter and ally of Trump sued the court to prevent Verizon from handing over its phone records, and in February, Trump loyalist Roger Stone filed a lawsuit to prevent AT&T from complying with a subpoena for his phone data.
The court of the Chamber has continued its investigation into the facts surrounding the January 6 assault in the middle of the litigation. A committee aide told CBS News that investigators have conducted nearly 700 depositions and interviews and received more than 80,000 documents. The committee is also monitoring the more than 425 tips received.
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