The ruling Wednesday comes one day after he asked a federal judge in Florida for a temporary restraining order, and it’s the first quick response to a lawsuit from a House witness, after several went to court to try to invalidate the committee and block the House from pursuing their phone records.
So far, 11 others for whom the committee subpoenaed phone records have sued. Overall, the House has already spoken to dozens of witnesses and requested more than 100 people’s phone records.
While the lawsuits to challenge the House are gaining attention, they’ve revealed that the committee appears to be notching many successful interviews about the pro-Trump rally and its high-profile right-wing participants and the insurrection on January 6, and that they are likely to have received large amounts of call log data from Verizon and AT&T already.
Flynn went to court on Tuesday, just a day after he was scheduled to testify before the committee — in what appeared to be an attempt to hold off the consequence of his failure to appear, as well as any other fact-finding by the panel.
District Judge Mary Scriven in Tampa said in the decision that Flynn did not meet the procedural requirements to make the case for emergency intervention, and that he could refile his request in the future or allow his requests to play out on a longer schedule in court.
Flynn had sought help from the judge by Thursday.
At this time, the dates were unclear as to when Flynn needed to turn over documents to the committee and appear for a deposition, the judge noted, and it wasn’t known if his phone records had actually been subpoenaed.
Flynn, in his complaint, had told the judge he was initially in talks with the committee and was beginning to preserve and collect documents he had to share with them. The committee agreed to delay his deposition, setting it for Monday.
But Scriven noted the document deadline passed weeks ago, in November, and that the committee was planning to push back the deposition…
Source : cnn
