Six months after the FBI seized Perry’s phone, an appeals court is reviewing a finding that 90 percent of lawmaker's messages should be disclosed to investigators.
drawn by the Justice Department and Howell distinguishing between a lawmaker’s work in formally sanctioned congressional investigations and Perry’s “informal legislative fact-finding.”Perry attorney John P. Rowley III argued that such fact-finding is protected against intrusion by the executive branch of the government.
Howell warned that accepting Perry’s “astonishing view” that the lawmakers are protected not only from questioning but also from even disclosing records in the first place would turn members of Congress into “supercitizens” — immune from investigative scrutiny, criminal or civil liability and political accountability.“No matter the vigor with which Rep.
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