The Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed the phone records of Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael Ward, both of whom falsely claimed in documents that they were among the battleground state’s presidential electors in 2020.
She seems nice.
The Wards’ lawsuit has been assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich, the wife of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, an ally of former President Donald Trump who is running for Senate, according to Politico.
So, that’s grounds for a recusal in most galaxies, right?
“U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich, the wife of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, an ally of former President Donald Trump who is running for Senate”
I’ll believe she was assigned the case coincidentally when the sun rises in the west and sets in the east and when the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind. These fuckers are dirtier than dirt. It is known.
And yep…fat blond-dyed white Karen-monster who wasn’t really qualified to be appointed to the federal bench…and she’ll prove not to have the ethics for it either.
Silly rabbit. Recusals are for Democrats.
Also, I’ll just leave this here…
Yes, Snell & Wilmer is a big Republican power outfit…and it filed Trump’s lawsuit in Maricopa County to challenge the election before mysteriously withdrawing the next day…
“Snell & Wilmer, a Phoenix-based firm with about 440 lawyers spread across the western United States and Washington, D.C., was working on the Arizona case alongside Phoenix political law firm Statecraft. That firm, which declined to comment, is still representing the Republican challengers.”
“Snell & Wilmer, which has an election law practice, is separately serving as co-counsel in the Arizona Republican Party’s long-running defense of a state law that prohibits absentee ballot collection by third parties and the counting of ballots cast at the wrong polling precinct.”
“Snell & Wilmer received more than $770,000 from the RNC, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee for legal services and legal consulting between January 2019 and September 2020, according to Federal Elections Commission records.”
Yes, both Brnoviches will be proven corrupt and willing to do anything for GQP white Christian power.
Kelli? It’s me, Justice. Sorry babe, but I believe your basis for confidentiality and/or privilege went “poof” that day in December when you gleefully touted in public that President Trump called you up that morning asking you for an “update” on your party’s efforts to challenge the state’s election results. Bummer! BTW, don’t worry about doctor-patient confidentiality. We’re pretty sure we can separate the patients from the criminals.
Ahhh hahahahha!! You love to see it!
Kelli is so destructive and operates largely without of any sort of responsibility or repercussions for her actions. Make no mistake, she is just a head of a multi-headed snake that is whacko-right wingers in AZ. Which is what enables her to operate without repercussions. So I imagine this got her SHOOK!
Crap. Was hoping Kelli would finally have some accountability. Sigh.
Her pic says it all. Dear Lord…
“Disclosing the phone records and metadata from the Phone Number would provide the [personal health information] of an unknown but quantifiable number of individuals seeking medical treatment from the Plaintiffs to the Committee and potentially to the public at large,” the Wards’ attorneys wrote in the complaint."
This is a huge stretch. Phone numbers without some other individually identifiable health information, are not protected health information under HIPAA, nor likely any Arizona state law.
Chemtrail Kelli is very well known here in AZ. We have a whole bunch of crazy women in office here (Wendy Rogers, Karen Fann) and Kelli is the queen crazy. Of course, if I try to take solace in our Democrats, Sinema’s visage comes roaring in to haunt my nightmares.
I wish I could convey how sick I am of hearing these people’s names.
So how clear is it that there is no overlap between their patients and their partners in crime?
Not clear at all. But the argument that the phone numbers, or even the identity of callers, is protected health information is a joke.
A phone number can be PHI, but it has to be together with information that “Relates to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual; the provision of health care to an individual; or the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to an individual”.
Phone numbers by themselves aren’t PHI.
Interesting strategy to avoid turning over subpoenaed phone metadata: Use the same phone for both your criminal activity and your business activity. Maybe their patients should sue them for not adequately protecting their medical privacy rights.
" The Wards’ lawsuit has been assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich, the wife of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, an ally of former President Donald Trump who is running for Senate, according to Politico."
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich was appointed by TFG. She should recuse because of a conflict of interest. But, of course, she won’t, so it will have to be appealed.
Has anyone successfully prevailed in preventing phone records (meta data) from going to any govt. agency that wants them for a legitimate purpose ? I don’t think so, but I wonder why the courts even bother to consider these requests to block these acquisitions The data belongs to the phone company, not the subscribers. It seems like a waste of time and public resources.
Our judicial system just appears to be an expensive grift for way too may JD’s.
Seems pretty thin ground to deny a congressional supeana.
The usual reasons to seek relief is criminal.
Hubby is going to wish that he had been more like George Conway to KellyAnne (Conway)
Than to his Kelli (Ward)
IANAL and IANAD, but if they are using the same phones they use for doing doctory osteopathic stuff for also doing insurrectiony sedition stuff, then are they violating HIPAA?
That would be a hoot.