A large group of pro-Trump protesters are seen on the West grounds of Capitol Building after breaking through the barriers on January 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. | Jon Cherry/Getty Images
By Kyle Cheney
05/29/2022 08:36 PM EDT
The Jan. 6 select committee has backed off its urgent push for internal Republican National Committee documents, conceding that a schedule set by a three-judge appeals court panel would prohibit the committee from accessing the records in time for next month’s public hearings.
“The grant of an injunction pending appeal and the schedule set by this Court for this case makes clear that the information at the core of this case … cannot be obtained, analyzed, and utilized by the Select Committee in the public hearings scheduled during the next several weeks,” House counsel Douglas Letter wrote in a Sunday evening filing.
Instead, the House panel is asking for the case to be resolved by late August, when Letter says the panel could pursue “additional hearings” or “an ensuing final Select Committee report recommending legislative action.”
The legal fight is over a set of RNC records held by Salesforce, a third party vendor that handled the party’s data and digital operations. The select committee subpoenaed Salesforce for the records in February, seeking metrics from the RNC’s post-election fundraising campaign. The panel says it intends to determine how the RNC’s messaging and small-dollar fundraising efforts amplified false claims that the election was...
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