Growing List of Federal Court Suits Could Force End of January 6 Select Committee

A subpoena issued by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol seeking private cell phone information from Verizon is not valid for at least five reasons, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this week in federal court by a noted constitutional law professor. The suit, filed on Dec. 14 by Professor John Eastman in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asks that the select committee’s subpoena to Verizon for his “phone records, text messages, contact lists, etc. for the period of November 1, 2020 to January 31, 2021,” be…