The US Supreme Court Monday denied an application for stay and injunction, allowing the US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on the Capitol to obtain the phone and text records of Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward. Ward filed an emergency application for a stay and injunction on October 24, after a lower court denied the emergency motion. Ward sought to prevent T-Mobile from releasing her phone records to the committee.

The court denied the order to prevent T-Mobile from releasing Ward’s telephone records to the committee. Justice Elena Kagan entered the order on behalf of the court. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas noted, however, that they would have granted the application for stay and injunction.

The committee sought Ward’s telephone records, excluding content, for the months leading up to and including the January 6, 2021 attack on the capitol.

In its response to Ward’s application for stay and injunction, the committee alleged that Ward played an important role in attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Though Ward was not in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021, the committee alleges that she aided former President Donald Trump in trying to pressure Arizona election officials to change the ballot count. The committee also discovered a document signed by Ward, indicating that Ward would have served as an elector for Trump in the Electoral College, one of the final steps of the US electoral process, even if Trump lost the election in Arizona.

Ward refused to testify in her deposition with the committee, citing her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.