Embattled MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has sued the Jan. 6 House select committee in an effort to block the panel's effort to acquire his phone records.
The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota, according to The Hill.
Lindell's filing – submitted at the deadline to challenge the select committee's subpoena to Verizon – said the investigation seeks to obtain Lindell's phone records from Nov. 1, 2020 to Jan 31, 2021, an action he argues is "far beyond the scope of the Select Committee's investigation, it is a veiled effort to conduct an unauthorized criminal investigation."
Among many claims, the lawsuit alleges the select committee's subpoena violates Lindell's First and Fourth Amendment rights.
The suit also names several members of Congress like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Liz Cheney as defendants, arguing the group "acted without authority because they were not validly organized as a House committee under the Rules of the United States House of Representatives."
Lindell's lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal filings following subpoenas from the House select committee.
Lindell, who has been banned from Twitter and faces multiple lawsuits over his baseless claims concerning fraud in the 2020 presidential election, has falsely predicted several times that former President Donald Trump would return to the Oval Office.
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