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GOP senator's lawsuit accuses Jack Smith of mocking 'Trump's complexion’
What happened
RawStory reports that Sen. Marsha Blackburn sued former special counsel Jack Smith in federal court in Tennessee, seeking $1 in nominal damages and the return of phone records obtained during Smith’s investigation. The complaint alleges that a May 2023 subpoena to Verizon for Blackburn’s call logs around the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack violated her constitutional rights by preventing her from invoking the Speech or Debate Clause.
The lawsuit also claims the investigation’s codename, “Arctic Frost,” referred to a type of orange and was chosen to mock Donald Trump’s…
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