House Jan. 6 Panel Reply to Ward’s Emergency Injunction Motion Due

A response is due Friday from the House Jan. 6 Select Committee to Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward’s emergency motion for an injunction, pending appeal, to quash the committee’s subpoena on T-Mobile to release her phone records, according to a clerk’s order Wednesday (docket 22-16473) at the 9th Circuit U.S. Appeals Court. Ward can file an optional reply by Monday, it said. Ward filed her emergency motion Oct. 10, three days after U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa in Phoenix denied her the injunction for the second time in less than a month (see 2210070026). The committee wants the phone records as part of its investigation into Ward’s efforts to thwart the certification of the 2020 election. Ward, a practicing osteopathic physician, argues that the subpoena violates her First Amendment “associational” rights and those of the people who contacted her in the run-up to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and that disclosure of her records would breach doctor-patient confidentiality. “Because the district court denied any kind of relief at all, including a brief administrative injunction or stay,” Ward’s 9th Circuit appeal “is in imminent peril of becoming moot,” said her motion to justify its emergency status.