Mark Meadows no longer wants to appear against Trump 1:22
(CNN) -
Mark Meadows, secretary general of the White House during the Trump administration, filed a lawsuit against the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and the members of the select committee of the house that investigates the events. on January 6 at the Capitol.
In the lawsuit, Meadows asks a federal court to block enforcement of a subpoena the commission issued for him and one it issued for Verizon to access his phone records.
The suit alleges that the subpoenas are "excessively broad and unduly burdensome," while asserting that the commission "lacks legal authority" to obtain the information it requests.
The lawsuit notes President Joe Biden's refusal to enforce executive privilege in the investigation and former President Donald Trump's efforts to enforce the privilege, a dispute that is currently being litigated in a separate case.
Meadows' action comes after the House committee ruled that it would pursue a criminal referral for contempt of Congress against Meadows because of his refusal to stand for deposition as part of the investigation into the Capitol riots.
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Before Meadows' decision to stop cooperating with the commission, it had provided the expert group with some 6,000 pages of documents.
Among those pages, Thompson reveals that Meadows provided the commission with significant information from both his personal email account and personal mobile phone that are relevant to the commission's investigation.
In a text exchange with a member of Congress on November 6, 2020, Meadows reportedly said "I love it" in a discussion about the possibility of naming alternate electors in certain states.
The member acknowledged that the plan would be "very controversial."
Report by Tierney Sneed and Annie Grayer
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