Meadows sued the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, as well as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday.
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, Pelosi and each individual member including Kinzinger and Committee Chair Bennie Thompson , are named in the.
The letter from Verizon informed Meadows the company would be turning over all of its data from his personal cell phone that had accumulated from October 1, 2020 to January 31, 2021, by December 15, in the absence of a court order preventing the company from doing so. The lawsuit complains that the"breadth and invasiveness" of the subpoena"gave the appearance of a criminal investigation, not a legislative fact-finding mission.
The suit argues that the subpoenas issued to Meadows and Verizon are not valid because Pelosi did not choose Republican committee members following consultation with House Minority Leader. Although McCarthy did nominate five GOP House members to serve on the committee, he withdrew the nominations after Pelosi rejected two of his picks. The suit also asserts that the Verizon subpoena was"excessively broad" and violates the Stored Communications Act.
Executive privilege is also invoked in the suit, since Meadows was serving under Trump at the time. The former president's attempts to fight the committee's subpoenas with executive privilege have not been met with any success., who unambiguously wields executive privilege as the sitting president, declined to evoke the privilege after Trump attempted to block a subpoena to the National Archives.