Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) is suing the Justice Department to prevent investigators from searching his seized cellphone.
Perry is a prominent supporter of former President Trump and the chair of the House Freedom Caucus.
Per Mediaite:
Politico first reported on Wednesday the 16-page suit, which was filed on Aug. 18 “but not publicly docketed until late Tuesday.”
Perry's phone was confiscated by the FBI on Aug. 9, one day after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, where there allegedly was hundreds of classified documents Trump allegedly took with him to the Florida home when he left office.
“This morning, while traveling with my family, 3 FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone,” said Perry in a statement to Fox News on Aug. 9. “They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish. I'm outraged — though not surprised — that the FBI under the direction of Merrick Garland's DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting Member of Congress.”
“My phone contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents, and friends,” he added. “None of this is the government's business.”
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Hooray Yes do so
Sue them to death. The corruption has to stop. Let those people out of jail now. This committee is a scam and goes against the constitution.. This is all political. Nancy Pelosi should hang for what she is doing to these people and America. You stupid American people wake up because your next to be destroyed by the democrats.
Until we can purge ALL left wing democrats from our government ,this type action will continue, and even increase, to where it effects all of us. They will destroy our republic and install their version of a socialist government, with them in charge. We had better wake up before it’s too late to stop them.
Yeah, can’t we just end these guys? Throw them out on the street and tell them never come back? Seems like we have just as much right as they do when they break every law and bend every rule to further their commie agenda. Seems like they are bringing back the stone age when the guy with the biggest stone axe made everybody else do what they wanted to do. We’ve got some pretty big axes too. Just say’in.
Lol, garland will just throw the case out, and story will die by the roadside. Oh we), wel one to the democrats states of america
They don’t have the right to go through his phone. What has that got to do with documents that he was supposed to have?
He said it all with “It’s NONE of their business!”😡😡😡
This is how it starts people. First the phones, then they jail members of the opposition party and treat them the way they have treated the 1/6 folks. You know those 87,000 new IRS agents, they will be the new national police force. They are being armed and trained to make forced arrests and home invations.