Justice Kagan grants stay to Arizona GOP chair seeking to block Jan. 6 panel subpoena - Axios

Justice Elena Kagan granted a impermanent enactment Wednesday to Arizona Republican Party person Kelli Ward, who asked the Supreme Court to artifact a subpoena seeking her telephone records successful narration to a Jan. 6 prime committee investigation.

Driving the news: In an emergency application Wednesday, Ward asked the justness to temporarily artifact a lower court's determination that requires her cellphone supplier to manus implicit her telephone records to the committee.

• Justice Kagan besides ordered a effect to the exertion beryllium fixed earlier 5 p.m. ET Friday.

Catch up quick: An appeals tribunal implicit the play rejected Ward's claims that her First Amendment rights would beryllium challenged if investigators uncovered who she spoke to erstwhile trying to situation the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination results, per AP.

• The subpoena asked T-Mobile to crook implicit telephone and substance connection enactment from November 2020 to January 2021.

The large picture: Ward, who posed arsenic a fake elector for erstwhile President Trump, refused to reply questions during her ain grounds with the panel, Politico reports.

Zoom out: Ward is the latest successful a bid of different high-level Republicans to entreaty to the Supreme Court successful caller weeks.

• Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas connected Monday temporarily blocked a subpoena from an Atlanta expansive assemblage seeking grounds from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) successful an probe of imaginable transgression efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
• Earlier this month, the Supreme Court rejected a petition from Trump, barring the special master successful the Mar-a-Lago probe from reviewing classified documents obtained astatine the erstwhile president's Florida residence.

This communicative has been updated with further developments.