Scott Perry battles DoJ over work with Trump allies to overturn 2020 election

The far-right congressman is invoking a constitutional clause that allows him to block access to his phone

Scott Perry, the far-right House Freedom Caucus chairman, is in a legal battle with the justice department for his work with Donald Trump allies to overturn the 2020 election results.

Perry, a congressman from Pennsylvania whose belated vote and those of caucus allies helped elect Kevin McCarthy as speaker, has been waging a legal fight for months to block the Department of Justice (DoJ) from accessing his cellphone, which was seized last August as part of the DoJ's sprawling January 6 inquiry and Trump's efforts to thwart Joe Biden's election with false fraud claims. A federal appeals court in DC is slated to hear arguments about accessing Perry's phone on Thursday.