Flynn sues to stop Jan. 6 panel from getting phone records

By Jan Wolfe | Reuters

WASHINGTON – Michael Flynn, a longtime advisor to erstwhile President Donald Trump, connected Tuesday sued the legislature committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol successful hopes of blocking it from obtaining his telephone records.

Flynn alleged successful a lawsuit, filed successful national tribunal successful Florida, that a subpoena issued to him by the House of Representatives Jan. 6 Select Committee was excessively wide successful scope and punishes him for constitutionally protected code helium engaged successful arsenic a backstage citizen.

The committee issued a subpoena to Flynn, Trump’s erstwhile nationalist information adviser, successful November, seeking grounds and documents astir a “command center” astatine Washington’s Willard Hotel acceptable up to steer efforts to contradict Democrat Joe Biden his November 2020 predetermination victory. Trump falsely claims helium mislaid the predetermination due to the fact that of wide electoral fraud.

A spokesperson for the Jan. 6 Select Committee did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Flynn’s suit is the latest successful a flood of litigation by targets of the committee seeking to forestall it from enforcing its subpoenas for grounds oregon communications.

Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and laminitis of the right-wing website Infowars, filed a akin lawsuit connected Monday.

Flynn was charged arsenic portion of erstwhile U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian power connected the 2016 U.S. statesmanlike predetermination won by Trump.

Flynn, a retired Army general, pleaded blameworthy to lying to the FBI astir interactions helium had with Russia’s ambassador to the United States successful January 2017. Flynn aboriginal sought to retreat the plea, arguing that prosecutors duped him into a plea agreement. Trump aboriginal pardoned him.