{"id":1461520,"date":"2022-05-03T08:14:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1461520"},"modified":"2022-05-03T08:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:14:53","slug":"d-c-judge-rejects-rnc-lawsuit-against-house-jan-6-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-judge-rejects-rnc-lawsuit-against-house-jan-6-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Judge Rejects RNC Lawsuit Against House Jan 6 Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fd-c-judge-rejects-rnc-lawsuit-against-house-jan-6-panel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1461520&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-01\/GettyImages-1268363816.jpg?h=199d8c1f&#038;itok=sSBLI8dY\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has rejected a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee against the House select panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The suit, in which the RNC alleged that its First and Fourth Amendment rights were violated when the panel subpoenaed Salesforce, the software company it uses for fundraising efforts, was rejected Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the committee subpoenaed Salesforce, attempting to gain access to documents from the company&#8217;s marketing cloud platform that is used by the RNC.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Timothy Kelly, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, dismissed the claims made by the group in a 53-page <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.241102\/gov.uscourts.dcd.241102.33.0.pdf\">opinion<\/a>, in which he writes that &#8220;less is at stake than the RNC represents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kelly also writes: &#8220;The subpoena\u2019s demand for this information does not seek the disclosure of confidential internal materials and does not add to the RNC\u2019s burden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the information the parties acknowledge exists but is currently confidential \u2013 such as the performance data of the RNC&#8217;s email campaigns during this period \u2013 the strength of the Select Committee\u2019s interest in this information outweighs any actual burdens imposed by its disclosure to the Select Committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The judge additionally declared that the subpoenas do not violate the Fourth Amendment and that the House panel has a legitimate purpose in inquiring after the information.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The select panel has, over the course of its many months-long investigation, subpoenaed dozens of people, including many in former President Trump&#8217;s inner circle.<\/p>\n<p>The panel has most recently scheduled a number of public hearings in prime-time slots beginning June 9 and heading through the end of the month.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has rejected a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee against the House select panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot.\u00a0The suit, in which the RNC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}