Coup Co-Conspirator ‘Chemtrails’ Kelli Ward Sues To Block January 6 Committee From Obtaining Her Cell Phone Records

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Politico reports, Jan. 6 select committee subpoenas phone records of Arizona GOP chair

The Jan. 6 select committee has subpoenaed the phone records of Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael Ward, who both signed documents falsely claiming to be among their state’s presidential electors in 2020.

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Video evidence for the January 6 Committee and the Department of Justice lawyers investigating Trump’s fake electors plot:

The Wards filed suit Tuesday against the House panel in federal court in Arizona seeking to block the couple’s phone provider, T-Mobile, from sharing their records with the committee. The lawsuit was initially assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich — the wife of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who is running for Senate and is an ally of former President Donald Trump — but she quickly recused herself from the matter.

The select committee subpoenaed the phone records of the Wards — as well as their company Mole Medical Services P.C. — last month from their provider, T-Mobile, according to court records. T-Mobile indicated it would turn over the records by Feb. 4 unless the Wards filed suit.

The subpoena seeks phone records from Nov. 1, 2020, through Jan. 31, 2021. Kelli Ward was among the most prominent GOP officials working with Trump to stoke claims of fraud in the 2020 election and later to transmit an unofficial slate of GOP electors to Congress as part of a bid to reverse the outcome on Jan. 6, 2021. The Wards, who were both designated to be pro-Trump electors had he won the state, also joined a lawsuit against then-Vice President Mike Pence in late December 2020, seeking to force his hand ahead of the Jan. 6 session of Congress that Pence was required to lead.

The couple argues that the subpoenas violate patient-physician privilege because the Wards are osteopathic doctors who use their phones to talk with their patients.

“Disclosing the phone records and metadata from the Phone Number would provide the [personal health information] of an unknown but quantifiable number of individuals seeking medical treatment from the Plaintiffs to the Committee and potentially to the public at large,” the Wards’ attorneys wrote.

This is total bullshit. The January 6 Committee is not asking for the content of conversations, but a call list of phone numbers called and calls received, and texts to and from those numbers, much like a phone bill. The committee is trying to cross-match the phone numbers to other phone records it has already received from other sources.

T-Mobile did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Alexander Kolodin [one of the GQP attorneys who filed frivolous legal challenges with Team Kraken to the 2020 election in Arizona], an attorney for the Wards, declined to comment through a spokesperson.

The last report I have seen from last March says Kolodin still has an open bar complaint against him with the Arizona State Bar for his handling of the Kraken election lawsuits. Judge skewers GOP lawsuit to throw out AZ election, citing total lack of evidence. But not to be deterred, Arizona’s Politics reported:

The Arizona attorney who worked with Sidney Powell and the Trump team to bring several of the lawsuits claiming widespread fraud in Maricopa County’s November elections wants to be on next year’s ballot. Alex Kolodin last night filed a Statement of Interest to run for one of the State House seats in Legislative District 23.

Kolodin intends to run as a Republican and hopes to take the slot currently occupied by Rep. John Kavanagh (R). (Kavanagh is aiming to move back to the State Senate.) This is Kolodin’s 2nd attempt to get to the legislature; he lost to Michelle Ugenti-Rita in the 2020 Senate primary.

The GQP culture of corruption in Arizona runs wide and deep. Jon Stewart and The Daily Show called Arizona the “Meth Lab of Democracy” for the insane legislation that our Republcian legislators produce. Now Arizona is the cradle of seditious insurrection against the Constitution and American democracy.

The lawsuit also rehashes similar arguments lodged by others suing to block their phone and banking records from the Jan. 6 select committee. The Wards say the committee was not properly constituted and that the subpoena violates their First and Fourth Amendment rights.

More bullshit already rejected by other courts for other coup co-conspirator witnesses.

They also noted a recent CNN interview in which Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco indicated that questions about fraudulent slates of electors are under review by federal prosecutors.

Irrelevant. Congress and the DOJ conduct seperate investigations, and maintain a firewall. There is no work-share arrangement. The January 6 Committee may make criminal referrals to the DOJ in its final report.

Although the Wards were among the pro-Trump electors who signed certificates claiming to have been the elected winners of Arizona — despite Joe Biden’s victory in the state — they were not among those subpoenaed last week by the select committee, which is investigating the illegitimate elector gambit.

See earlier post, January 6 Committee Zeroes In On Trump Fake Electors Plot To Steal Election.

Two of the other Arizona electors, Nancy Cottle and Loraine Pellegrino, were subpoenaed as the panel homed in on those chosen to lead the elector delegations. The two, who are also being represented by Kolodin, said in a statement through their attorney they were targeted for “exercising their fundamental rights as Americans.”

No one has a fundamental right to engage in forgery, commit election fraud, and to interfere with a formal act of Congress in certifying the Eelectoral College vote as part of seditious conspiracy and coup plot to overturn American democracy.

Other states’ attorneys general have voiced concerns about the alternate slates of electoral, but Arizona Democrats have complained that Mark Brnovich has taken no public action to investigate the effort by Kelli Ward and other GOP activists to certify themselves as Arizona’s official electors for the 2020 election.

The Rachel Maddow Show covered how “Arizona Attorney General Is Too Busy Kissing Up To Trump To Deal With Fake Elector Referral.” (The Laurie Roberts opinion at the Arizona Republic calling on Mark Brnovich to resign to which Maddow refers is a paid subscriber article).

Mark Brnovich’s failure to investigate and to prosecute these fake GQP electors for their crimes for well over a year now is itself a crime, it is a politically motivated coverup of a crime to protect the prominent Republicans involved.





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