Former Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone filed a lawsuit Thursday in an attempt to stop the Jan. 6 committee from accessing his phone records.
The lawsuit, which Stone filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday, hopes to stop AT&T from turning his phone records over to the committee and is the latest case of a former Trump administration official attempting to stonewall the committee’s efforts to obtain phone records. The subpoena of Stone’s phone records, from Nov. 1, 2020, to Jan. 31, 2021, is overly broad and in violation of his First and Fourth Amendment rights, his lawyers argue.
“There is no reason to believe that the full record of personal and political contacts of each Plaintiff extending for nearly two months before Jan. 6 (long before it was even a remote possibility) and continuing for a month afterwards, is necessary to supplement their fulsome explanation of the events of Jan. 6 and preceding to it,” Stone’s lawyer argues in the lawsuit, according to copies viewed by the Washington Examiner.
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Stone’s lawyers also allege that the committee would be able to build a map of political contacts and opponents based on the information available.
“The billions of data points yielded can recreate not just intimate relationships, but also locations and movements, creating a virtual CAT-scan of the Select Committee’s political opposition, likely, as reported, including even their own colleagues in the House of Representatives,” the lawsuit says.
The suit aims to have the judge declare the subpoena unlawful and prohibit the commission from accessing said records.
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Several former Trump administration members have been subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee in an attempt to gather information about the events leading to the Jan. 6 riot. While some have been compliant, others have been resistant. Stone was subpoenaed in December, only to invoke his Fifth Amendment right in response to all questions.
Stone is not the first to file a lawsuit blocking phone records. More than 20 individuals have attempted to block access to their phone records, including former adviser Sebastian Gorka and freelance photographer Amy Harris.
