Michael Flynn sues Capitol attack committee in bid to block subpoena
Source: The Guardian
Michael Flynn, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump, has sued the congressional committee investigating the deadly 6 January attack on the US Capitol in hopes of blocking it from obtaining his phone records.
Flynn alleged in a lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, that a subpoena issued to him by the House of Representatives select committee was too broad in scope and punishes him for constitutionally protected speech as a private citizen.
Flynn also alleged in the lawsuit that the committee has no authority to conduct business because it is not a duly constituted select committee.
An appeals court has rejected that argument, ruling on 9 December that the committee was valid and entitled to see White House records Trump has tried to shield.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michael-flynn-sues-capitol-attack-committee-in-bid-to-block-subpoena/ar-AAS3C67?li=BBnb7Kz
No such luck traitor boy
TomDaisy
(1,940 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)PatSeg
(47,613 posts)He sounds awfully desperate, doesn't he?
The committee has no authority to conduct business because it is not a duly constituted select committee.
Ray Bruns
(4,112 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,621 posts)liberalgunwilltravel
(338 posts)Recall him back to active duty and court martial his ass.
bluestarone
(17,060 posts)Hey, let's SUE the investigators? Gotta be a decision they come up with TOGETHER.
csziggy
(34,138 posts)CNN Digital Expansion 2018 Katelyn Polantz
By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice
Updated 4:47 PM ET, Wed December 22, 2021
(CNN)Michael Flynn has swiftly lost his bid in court to block a possible House select committee subpoena for his phone records and to hold off demands he speak to the panel investigating January 6.
The ruling comes one day after he asked a federal judge in Florida for a temporary restraining order, and it's the first quick response to a lawsuit from a House witness, after several went to court to try to invalidate the committee and block the House from pursuing their phone records.
So far, 11 others for whom the committee subpoenaed phone records have sued.
Overall, the House has already spoken to dozens of witnesses and requested more than 100 people's phone records.
More: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/politics/michael-flynn-january-6-lawsuit/index.html