Posted on 10/22/2025 4:07:04 PM PDT by CFW
Aprominent Republican senator whose phone records were seized during the Biden administration declared Wednesday she will sue Justice Department and FBI officials who conducted the search on grounds they violated her personal civil liberties and her protections as a member of Congress. “The infringement is deep and wide,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told Just the News.
Blackburn said the 2023 grand jury subpoena of phone records violated her 1st and 4th Amendment protections of free speech and privacy, her separation of powers protections as a lawmaker and possibly the Stored Communications Act because her carrier Verizon retained and turned over information on her geographic locations when she made calls.
She also singled out former Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led investigations that prompted two felony indictments of Donald Trump that have since been dismissed, as well as a specialized team at the FBI that conducted phone analysis on records seized from eight U.S. senators and one House member in a Jan. 6 related probe code named Arctic Frost.
“I can assure you this, we will be suing the Biden DOJ, Jack Smith and his CR-15 team, which, of course, has already been fired by (current FBi Director) Kash Patel, thank goodness,” Blackburn said in an interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show. “These guys just hated Donald Trump, and they hated us because we supported Donald Trump, and we were standing with Donald Trump.”
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They should do it as a group...I think they named 8...
Stop planning and start doing . I grow tired of these Blondi-esque threats.
Sue the tax payer. Accountability would mean jail time. Let the taxpayers pay for the incarceration.
Julie Kelly has a theory. The ten House and Senate members who were spied on were all ones planning to object (or support the objection) of the 2020 election being certified on Jan 6th (thus the importance of the Pelosi ‘insurrection). That’s why they were spied on. Jack Smith planned to indict and jail everyone one of those members of Congress who supported the idea that there was fraud in the 2020 election.
Her comment:
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“The common thread is that all supported a 10-day audit of 2020 election result and planned to object to the counting of disputed electoral votes on Jan 6. Smith was establishing a basis to include some Senators in a sweeping seditious conspiracy case had Kamala won.”
BTW, a good article from Julie from a couple of days ago at this link:
“’Everything Smith Did as a Deranged Prosecutor Helped President Trump Win the Presidency’”
Here is a bit of it but if you have time read the entire piece.
“A ‘Complete Existential Meltdown’ Avoided by Trump Victory’
“But by Smith now rearing his ugly head, the American people are reminded of what the country avoided by a Trump victory. Lauro speculated that “we would have come as close to a complete existential meltdown as the country did during the Civil War” if Trump had been put on trial under a Kamala Harris presidency. “I would have anticipated that they would not rest until everyone associated with President Trump was put in jail. I think if Kamala Harris had won, she would have done everything possible to completely end once and for all a populist political movement.”
Instead, as Trump has said, the hunters are the hunted. Smith is under investigation by House and Senate committees as well as by the office of special counsel for a potential Hatch Act violation. Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn this week sent the DOJ a criminal referral for Smith for prosecutorial misconduct and potential disbarment.”
And if you run out of good articles to read, here is Julie’s column from today:
“Yes, President Trump and Everyone Hunted by the DOJ Should be Compensated”
https://www.declassified.live/p/yes-president-trump-and-everyone?utm_medium=ios
Ben Ferguson (radio talk show host) and Ted Cruz were talking about this on the radio about 15 minutes ago.
This is not a government action.
It is Sen Blackburn suing these people personally
Duh.
“”They should do it as a group””
Curious why that hasn’t been done...
Only problem is all the incriminating evidence in the recorded calls.
Jack Smith will never step foot on USA soil while Trump is president. Smith knows he is a dead man walking. He will try to flee to a country that has no extradition treaty with the US. My prediction is he will fail in his quest to escape the executioner. He has a special date with the gallows.
I’m still waiting for Marsha Blackburn to explain why she had evidence to cause her to vote against confirming Biden for president, but after the “insurrection“ she decided Biden was actually legitimately elected and voted to confirm him.
Sue Jackboot Smith for every darn dime he has, personally. That swine needs to pay, and pay and pay.
I grow tired of these Blondi-esque threats.DIRTYSECRET...Texas EagleSue the tax payer. Accountability would mean jail time. Let the taxpayers pay for the incarceration
Dumb and dumber...The only thing missing is the clown that can't spell his/her own name...IN CAPS!
The same thing was basically done to the J6 folks, they should sue the feds and all the phone companies for providing the data.
Tools expressly outlined to be used against foreign powers only.
More than Lucy has some 'splainin' to do.
The cell records were obtained via a valid search warrant issued by a federal court, which makes it compliant with the 4th Amendment - even for members of Congress.
This,Oh Perpetual Defender of Government's Side. There's no way in hell such a warrant was justifiable, valid or not. I hope the judge who signed off on this obviously partisan abuse of power gets their clock cleaned, too.
Yer dumb and dumber!
I’m not so sure that there was a valid warrant. Wasn’t it just a request by the illegally appointed J6 Committee?
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