In the 53-page opinion, Kelly outlined the House committee’s aspirations, while rejecting many arguments that Republicans and Trump administration witnesses tried to put forward in court, claiming that the committee was not set up properly or was not seeking proper information. “The RNC argues that the Selection Committee does not have the appropriate authority to exercise investigative power on Parliament … But for some reason, especially given the reading of the House resolution, the Court cannot agree,” he wrote. Kelly. He pointed out the importance of this case, describing it as “an extremely rare spectacle of a congressional committee summoning the archives of one of the two major political parties in our country.” However, the House panel will not immediately receive Republican marketing email information. Kelly temporarily blocks the delivery of the data to the House until at least May 5, when the RNC has the opportunity to appeal. The Parliamentary Selection Committee first requested data on the RNC’s email marketing in late February, and the RNC sued in March to prevent the release of its information. House researchers said they wanted to look at the back-end data related to hundreds of emails from the Trump campaign and the RNC to their supporters from November 3, 2020 to January 6, 2021, because the emails suggest that the results of the election was rigged. and asked for donations, according to court statements. The House is trying to find out who worked on the e-mail campaigns, how successful they were, and how marketing software company Salesforce looked at and analyzed the January 5 and 6 Trump rallies and contacted GOP officials, the court file said. . says. The judge noted that the data, which is in the hands of Salesforce, will not reveal important secrets of the Republican Party-controlled internal functioning of the House controlled by the Democrats. “Home Defendants do not seek, and Salesforce does not generate, any aggregate information about any of the RNC donors, volunteers or recipients of email, including any personally identifiable information. In addition, even RN’s own confidential information “They are undoubtedly relatively narrow in scope,” Kelly wrote. The Parliamentary Selection Committee continues to search for evidence and witnesses related to the events that led to the uprising. Democrat Bennie Thompson announced last week that the committee would hold eight hearings in June, which would be a “mix of some high-end hearings and some regular hearings.” Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is expected to appear before the commission this month after months of disagreement between lawmakers and the former New York mayor, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. CNN’s Paula Reid, Annie Grayer, Ryan Nobles, Daniella Diaz and Zachary Cohen contributed to this report.
