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Earlier this year, the panel said it had issued subpoenas to
people who had knowledge of or participated in efforts to send
false "alternate electors" to Washington for then-President
Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Ward, a former
Arizona state senator and chair of the state Republican Party,
was among them. Her husband also received a subpoena.
The House of Representatives committee's request "relates to
phone calls records from November 1, 2020, to January 31, 2021,
from an account associated with a Republican nominee to serve as
elector for former President Trump," Arizona-based U.S. District
Court Judge Diane Humetewa said in an 18-page ruling.
"That three-month period is plainly relevant to its
investigation into the causes of the January 6th attack," the
judge wrote. "The court therefore has little doubt concluding
these records may aid the select committee’s valid legislative
purpose."
It was not immediately clear whether Ward intended to appeal the
ruling. She was not immediately available for comment. She has
previously said the demand for the phone records violated her
constitutional rights.
The committee is planning to hold its next hearing on Sept. 28,
the panel's chairman said on Tuesday.
The committee held eight hearings over six weeks in June and
July, disclosing the findings of its more than yearlong probe of
events surrounding the deadly assault on the Capitol by Trump
supporters after weeks of false claims by him that he had won
the 2020 election.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington)
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