{"id":238103,"date":"2022-05-02T14:09:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/judge-rejects-republican-national-committee-lawsuit-against-january-6-committee-says-panel-is-properly-constituted"},"modified":"2022-05-02T14:09:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:09:04","slug":"judge-rejects-republican-national-committee-lawsuit-against-january-6-committee-says-panel-is-properly-constituted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/judge-rejects-republican-national-committee-lawsuit-against-january-6-committee-says-panel-is-properly-constituted","title":{"rendered":"Judge rejects Republican National Committee lawsuit against January 6 committee, says panel is properly constituted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A District of Columbia federal judge has thrown out a Republican National Committee lawsuit which sought to block the House January 6 select committee from accessing records related to GOP fundraising emails sent in the days before the attack on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters. In March, the RNC filed suit against the nine-member panel after Chairman Bennie Thompson issued a subpoena to Salesforce, the owner of a digital tool the GOP uses to create and distribute fundraising emails, seeking documents and testimony &#8220;regarding whether and how the Trump campaign used Salesforce&#8217;s platform to disseminate false statements about the 2020 election&#8221; prior to the attack on the Capitol. The RNC later added Salesforce to the suit as a defendant and filed papers asking District Judge Timothy Kelly to issue an injunction barring enforcement of the subpoena and a declaration that it was invalid because it was &#8220;issued in pursuit of non-legislative activities, because the select committee is illegitimate without<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A District of Columbia federal judge has thrown out a Republican National Committee lawsuit which sought to block the House January 6 select committee from accessing records related to GOP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}