Retired General Michael Flynn, who was former President Trump’s national security adviser, is suing the House January 6 select committee to try to invalidate a subpoena for his documents and testimony.
“Without intervention by this Court,” the lawsuit filed in a Florida federal court Tuesday, “General Flynn faces the harm of being irreparably and illegally coerced to produce information and testimony in violation of the law and his constitutional rights.”
Flynn asserts that the November 8 subpoenas, which include phone records and “[a]ll documents and communications referring or relating in any way to plans, efforts, or discussions regarding challenging, decertifying, overturning, or contesting the results of the 2020 Presidential election,” are “are invalid and unenforceable.”
Trump’s one-time national security adviser is believed to have attended an Oval Office meeting where attendees discussed seizing voting machines, declaring a national emergency and invoking some national security emergency powers to keep Mr. Trump in the White House, according to multiple reports.
Flynn’s lawyers argue in the lawsuit that the committee is “not a duly constituted Select Committee.”
Like former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Flynn is also asserting the subpoenas for his records are overbroad, serve no legislative purpose, and infringe on his rights.
“Allowing an entirely partisan select committee of Congress to obtain General Flynn’s records and communications relating to his political activities, associations, and speech as a private citizen would work a massive infringement and chilling of his 1st Amendment rights,” his lawsuit argues.
Zak Hudak contributed to this report.
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