Roger Stone, a staunch Trump ally, filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to prevent AT&T from turning his phone records over to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The House panel subpoenaed AT&T for Stone’s records from Nov. 1, 2020, to Jan. 31, 2021, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
Stone argued in the suit that the subpoena was unlawful, overly broad and in violation of his First and Fourth Amendment rights under the Constitution.
The suit also alleged that by collecting his phone records, Democrats on the committee would be able to build a map of contacts and associations of their political opponents.
“The billions of data points yielded can recreate not just intimate relationships, but also locations and movements, creating a virtual CAT-scan of the Select Committee’s political opposition, likely, as reported, including even their own colleagues in the House of Representatives,” Stone’s lawyer said in the lawsuit.
Stone, a political consultant, is a longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump.
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