Washington (CNN)The House select committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol is poised to receive data from the Republican Party's email communications platform Salesforce on Wednesday, and the Republican National Committee rushed to court Tuesday night to try to block the handover.
The development is the latest to emerge about the House's aggressive pursuits reconstructing political misinformation after the 2020 election that contributed to Trump supporters storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The RNC has alleged that the House's subpoena to Salesforce seeking information about 2020 election communications, including those related to former President Donald Trump, "would give the Select Committee unprecedented access to the RNC's internal political strategies and to private, personal information regarding its supporters."
Last week, the RNC filed a lawsuit against the House committee, complaining about the Salesforce subpoena's breadth. But that lawsuit was unlikely to succeed, as it was aimed only at the committee, not at Salesforce, and there is no emergency mechanism to fast-track it in court.
Thus, Salesforce was still planning to turn over the records, according to a new filing in court on Tuesday where the RNC adds the tech company to the lawsuit.
"Salesforce's counsel represented to the RNC that absent a pending motion for emergency relief from this court, Salesforce would begin to produce documents to the Select Committee in compliance with the...
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