Judicial Watch, the conservative foundation that investigates congressional misdeeds, filed a lawsuit on Friday against Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and the House Intelligence Committee, demanding they release the subpoenas relating to phone records of attorney Rudy Giuliani and other allies of President Donald Trump.

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Judicial Watch originally filed a records request on December 6 and asked for “all subpoenas issued by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on or about September 30, 2019, to any telecommunications provider including, but not limited to AT&T, Inc., for records of telephone calls of any individuals” and “all responses received to the above-referenced subpoenas,” to be published.

However, there was no reply to the request — so the group filed a lawsuit under the “common-law right of public access.”

The lawsuit argues that the records are “of critical public importance,” as the subpoenas were “issued without any lawful basis and violated the rights of numerous private citizens.”

“Disclosure of the requested records would serve the public interest by providing information about the unlawful issuance of the subpoenas. The requested records fall within the scope of the public’s right of access to governmental records as a matter of federal common law,” it continues.

Judicial Watch’s president, Tom Fitton, released a statement in which he decried Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

“Schiff abused his power to secretly subpoena and then publish the private phone records, in potential violation of law, of innocent Americans. What else is Mr. Schiff hiding?” Fitton asked.

“Schiff and his committee ran roughshod over the rule of law in pursuit of the abusive impeachment of President Trump. This lawsuit serves as a reminder that Congressman Schiff and Congress are not above the law.”

We’re in agreement with Fitton. It does not surprise us that the original request for the subpoena records were ignored, as they are going to prove to the American people what all of us conservatives know to be true: Schiff and his cronies in Congress have overstepped the mark in their endless quest to take down President Trump.

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The targeting of Giuliani, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the president’s attorney, Jay Sekulow, and others, was necessary in the eyes of the raving mad Democrats, apparently. So who cares if the law is broken, as long as Trump is gone, they appear to believe.

Former Attorney General Mike Mukasey said that the subpoenas “raise questions of work-product and attorney-client privilege,” and that the Democrats are breaking the law by pursuing this lost cause.

We don’t think it will be long before this comes back to bite the Democrats.

This piece originally appeared in ThePoliticalInsider.com and is used by permission.

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