Supreme Court Rejects Arizona GOP Contest to Jan. 6 Subpoena (1)

The US Supreme Court rejected a bid by Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward to stop the Jan. 6 congressional committee from enforcing a subpoena for her phone records.

The order on Monday appears to clear the path for the committee to obtain Ward’s phone records, rebuffing her request for more time to press a claim that the subpoena violated her political association rights under the First Amendment. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said that they would have sided with Ward and continued to block the committee from enforcing the subpoena.

The court gave no explanation for the majority’s ...