Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack Wednesday to block the committee from retrieving his phone records.
Lindell’s action, filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota, represents the most recent suit against the committee by an ally of former President Donald Trump, according to a report.
The MyPillow CEO filed his suit on the deadline for any challenge in court before Verizon’s deadline to comply with the committee’s subpoena.
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The request was issued to Verizon for all of Lindell’s communications records regarding his cellphone from Nov. 1, 2020, and Jan. 31, 2021, according to Lindell’s suit.
The suit alleges that the committee’s subpoena violates Lindell’s First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights, and it asserts members of the committee “acted without authority because they were not validly organized as a House committee,” according to the suit.
Lindell’s action incorrectly contends that Reps. Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, and Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, “have no legitimate power to issue enforceable subpoenas.”
Both Cheney and Kinzinger are members of the GOP and the House Republican caucus.
Lindell’s suit also claims that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, had no say concerning nominations to the committee.
McCarthy initially did recommend five Republicans to the panel, but he pulled the recommendations following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s opposition.
The subpoena “exceeds the authority of the Select Committee” because it asks for “records that are far beyond the scope of the Select Committee’s investigation,” according to Lindell.
It is “a veiled effort to conduct an unauthorized criminal investigation, and it is not in furtherance of a valid legislative purpose,” he said.
Lindell requests that the subpoena for his records be invalidated or that he be granted the chance to study the requested information before it is handed over to the committee to “assert any applicable claim of attorney-client or other privilege.”
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The House select committee has made no official comment on Lindell’s suit.
