Judge orders Rep. Scott Perry to hand over phone records in Jan. 6 and election probe

A federal judge has ordered Rep. Scott Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, to turn over nearly 1,700 cellphone records to government investigators in relation to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The judge ruled that the records were not protected by the speech or debate clause of the Constitution. While some records were deemed protected, the remaining ones, including messages about alleged election fraud and the role of the vice president in certifying the electoral vote count, must be disclosed. Perry had previously argued that the clause protected him from the government searching his communications, but the court largely rejected that argument.