A Fox News probe reveals that the DOJ was illegally investigating House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, as part of a broader probe against Trump.
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The Department of Justice under former President Joe Biden was investigating another high-ranking Republican lawmaker, as part of a probe to bring charges to Donald Trump, according to Fox News.
In 2022, the DOJ subpoenaed the private phone records of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan in 2022. The aim of the investigation was to find the Ohio Republican’s phone data covering a more than two-year period.
Obtained by Fox News Digital the subpoena reveals a federal prosecutor who later worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 investigation who ordered Verizon to hand over the phone data, also known as toll records, reaching back to Jan. 1, 2020.
According to Fox News, the request seems to be the most sprawling yet of the openly known subpoenas aimed at senators and current and former House members during Arctic Frost, the probe that led to Smith bringing election-related charges against President Donald Trump.
But Jordan is not the first close Trump ally who was targeted and held under investigation by the DOJ under Biden, according to Fox News. In a probe worthy of a George Orwell novel, other lawmakers who became aware that they were spied upon are former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s, as were the records of what Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said were at least 10 Republican senators, including Sens. Lindsey Graham, Marsha Blackburn, Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson.
Smith did not begin working as special counsel until seven months after the subpoena was issued, meaning the request pre-dated his time at the DOJ.
The Fox News investigation revealed that the subpoena for Jordan’s records seems to be one of the first known ones in the Arctic Frost probe and was issued during a time when Jordan was serving as the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, which performs oversight of the DOJ. His role at the time is illustrative of Republicans’ sharp criticisms of the Arctic Frost subpoenas, as they claim the requests for Congress members’ phone records breached the separation of powers, including under the speech or debate clause.
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