Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller on Wednesday sued the Jan. 6 House Select Committee over its request to access his phone records, reports Axios.
"The Subpoena is overly broad and seeks information that is unrelated to the purposes whereby Congress established the Select Committee," his legal team said in court filings out Wednesday.
The panel in February subpoenaed T-Mobile requiring that Miller's parents provide the phone company with detailed records associated with Miller's account. Miller is on a family plan with his parents.
Lawyers for Miller say he was "engaged in constitutionally protected activity, as well as sensitive, personal communications with medical professionals concerning the health and well-being of his wife and newborn daughter," thus, "the Select Committee cannot demonstrate that the records it is seeking from T-Mobile would further its legislative mission, nor can it show that Mr. Miller's personal and business communications for more than two months prior to Jan. 6, 2021, and nearly a month after that date, are relevant to its authorized purpose."
His communications, they added, are protected by the First Amendment.
"Worse, the Chairman and the Select Committee are misusing their authority to investigate political adversaries, painting their opposition with a broad brush as insurrectionists and domestic terrorists," they added.
"The Select Committee cannot demonstrate a compelling justification that would justify this intrusion."
According to a letter from the committee sent in November, Miller, by his own account, "participated in efforts to spread false information about alleged voter fraud in the November 2020 election, as well as efforts to encourage state legislatures to alter the outcome of the November 2020 election by appointing alternate slates of electors."