A federal court has ruled Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) must turn over more than 1,600 emails, text messages, and other communications to federal investigators believe may shed light on efforts to challenge the 2020 election results and the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
In the summer of 2022, federal investigators seized some 2,055 communications records from Mr. Perry’s phone. The Republican lawmaker had challenged the records seizure and asserted those records were his privileged records under the U.S. Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause. In a Tuesday memorandum opinion, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of Washington’s federal court district ruled that Mr. Perry’s privilege claims should only extend to 396 of the communications records and that federal investigators could keep the remaining 1,659 records….
