Posted on 11/24/2025 1:39:03 AM PST by Morgana
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a staunch pro-life advocate known for leading investigations into the Biden administration’s aggressive imprisonment of peaceful pro-life advocates, revealed Thursday that former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department secretly subpoenaed his phone records over a 28-month period.
The subpoena, part of the Justice Department’s Arctic Frost investigation, targeted Jordan’s “call detail records” from Verizon, covering calls, text messages, voicemails and location data dating back to January 1, 2020.
The federal grand jury request was issued on April 25, 2022, and was accompanied by a nondisclosure order signed by Magistrate Judge David A. Baker that barred Verizon from informing Jordan, citing risks of “flight from prosecution, destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation.”
Jordan, an Ohio Republican who has spearheaded congressional probes into the Biden administration’s targeting of peaceful pro-life Americans, called the action a blatant example of government overreach.
“They spied on President Trump. They spied on Senators. Now, we just learned, they spied on me,” Jordan said in a statement.
He described the subpoena as “ridiculous” and the “epitome of weaponization of government.”
The records obtained did not include the contents of Jordan’s calls or messages but provided extensive metadata, including “who I call, who called me, when we called each other, when the call took place, how long the call was and where I was at when I made that call — they got location as well,” Jordan said.
“All the way back to January of 2020, they gathered information … and they gathered that over a time period of 28 months. This is how ridiculous this is and why we are doing everything to get to the bottom of it,” Jordan added. “If they can do it to us, they can do it to you.”
The disclosure comes amid broader Republican accusations that the Biden-era Justice Department, under Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team, has systematically targeted GOP lawmakers probing the administration’s policies, including its improper enforcement of the FACE Act against pro-life groups.
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