By Chelsey Cox | USA TODAY
Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael Ward, filed a suit Tuesday against the Jan. 6 House select committee for subpoenaing the couple’s phone records.
The Wards allegedly signed documents falsely claiming to be among Arizona’s presidential electors in 2020. The suit sought to block phone provider T-Mobile from sharing records with the committee, according to records obtained by Politico.
The lawsuit has been assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich, wife of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Senate candidate and ally of former President Donald Trump.
The phone records were subpoenaed from T-Mobile and the Ward’s company, Mole Medical Services P.C., in January, according to court records. Data were requested from Nov. 1, 2020, through Jan. 31, 2021 – a period that starts on the eve of the 2020 presidential election and ends weeks after the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.
T-Mobile indicated it would turn over records to the committee by Feb. 4 unless the Wards filed suit.
In the suit, the couple argued the subpoenas violate patient-physician privilege. The Wards are osteopathic doctors who talk to their patients over the phone.
