Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., must disclose to federal prosecutors more than 1,600 text messages, emails and other communications related to the investigation into Donald Trump and his allies’ attempts to overturn the 2020 election, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found that the majority of the messages between Perry and other members of Congress, members of the Trump administration and allies outside of the government could not be concealed from prosecutors by the representative’s constitutional protections as a member of Congress, Politico reports.
If he doesn’t, they’ll get a warrant to have them delivered by the phone company, et al., and then they’ll prosecute him for noncompliance. Either way, this isn’t about if the evidence can be obtained, but more a statement of its upcoming use in the case.