January 6 organizers SUE Verizon to stop them handing cell their phone records to the Capitol riot committee over their 'right to privacy' as the full House prepares to vote TODAY on holding Mark Meadows in contempt
Four organizers of the January 6 'Save America' rally are suing Verizon in an attempt to prevent the phone giant from handing over cell phone data to the House select committee on January 6.
Politico reported Monday that organizers Justin Caporale, Tim Unes, Megan Powers and Maggie Mulvaney filed a lawsuit arguing the committee doesn't have the proper authority to obtain the data.
The committee's subpoena to Verizon, which requests call, text and location information, 'lacks a lawful purpose and seeks to invade the plaintiffs' constitutional rights to privacy and to confidential political communications,' the lawsuit said.
Four organizers of the January 6 'Save America' rally are suing Verizon in an attempt to prevent the phone giant from handing over cell phone data to the House select committee on January 6
Justin Caporale (left), who was working for candidate Donald Trum at the time, was with Event Strategies Inc. on January 6 and was listed on the permit paperwork for the 'Save America' rally as the 'project manager'
Also suing: Megan Powers (left) of MPowers Consulting LLC, listed on the permit paperwork as 'Operations Manager for Scheduling and Guidance' and Maggie Mulvaney (right), described as the 'VIP lead.' Mulvaney is the niece of Trump's former acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney
The lawsuit comes as the House of Representatives is poised to vote Tuesday to hold former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress over his refusal to cooperate.
The individuals involved include Caporale, of Event Strategies Inc., listed on permit paperwork for the January 6 rally as a 'project manager,' Unes, the founder and president of Event Strategies, Inc., who was the rally's 'stage manager,' Powers, of MPowers Consulting LLC, listed on the permit paperwork as 'Operations Manager for Scheduling and Guidance' and Mulvaney, described as the 'VIP lead.'
Mulvaney is the niece of former President Donald Trump's acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
Unes was let go by the Elizabeth Dole Foundation after his ties to January 6 were discovered, The New York Times reported. He had been planning the memorial events for the late Sen. Bob Dole in Washington last week.
'The Plaintiffs are four private citizens who were not involved in any federal government activities or programs. They have only one apparent connection to the matter Congress claims to be investigating: They served as vendors to help staff a peaceful, lawful, orderly and patriotic assembly to promote First Amendment-protected speech,' the suit argued.
The lawsuit revealed that the plaintiffs sat for 'lengthy' interviews and provided 'thousands of documents to Congressional investigators.'
'The Plaintiffs answered every single question about what happened at the event, who spoke, who the Plaintiffs spoke with, and when,' the suit continued. 'If Congress wanted to know anything more about the Plaintiffs' brief involvement with the events it is allegedly investigating, it needed only have asked.'
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in New Jersey.
The January 6 committee voted Monday night to hold Trump's former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress, with the whole House vote expected on Tuesday
After Trump's speech at the 'Save America' rally, a crowd of his supporters rampaged the Capitol Building, holding up the certification process of President Joe Biden's win for several hours.
The committee voted Monday night to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress.
Meadows briefly planned to cooperate with the committee and had turned over a number of text messages to lawmakers - which they read in the run-up to the contempt vote.
They included messages from lawmakers, Fox News personalities and Donald Trump Jr, urging former President Donald Trump to call off the mob.
President Trump had appeared at the 'Save America' rally and told supporters, 'And after this, we're going to walk down, and I'll be there with you, we're going to walk down, we're going to walk down ... we're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.'
'And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them,' he added.
'Because you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong,' he said.
Afterward, a crowd of his supporters rampaged the Capitol Building, holding up the certification process of President Joe Biden's win for several hours.
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