Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell is suing Verizon to block the release of her phone records to the Jan. 6 committee

Sidney Powell, a former lawyer for former President Donald Trump, filed a lawsuit against the company on Tuesday in an attempt to block the company from giving her phone records to the committee investigating the Capitol attack.

According to the lawsuit, the January 6 committee subpoenaed the phone company for records related to multiple phone numbers from November 1, 2020 to January 31, 2021. Powell was told that some of the phone numbers belonged to her.

According to the lawsuit, the committee does not have the authority to seek Powell's records and that it is trying to act beyond its legal scope as aquisitorial tribunal.

Powell is asking the court to prohibit the handing over of the records.

An attorney for Powell did not respond to a request for comment.

Powell was fired by the Trump campaign after serving on his legal team. She was a vocal proponent of false or unproven claims of mass voter and election fraud, filing multiple lawsuits in battleground states in an attempt to overturn President Joe Biden's wins. The lawsuits failed.

Powell is facing defamation lawsuits worth more than $4 billion over the fraud claims, especially those that accused election-technology companies of wrongdoing. Powell continued to make claims about the two companies despite an internal Trump campaign memo dismissing theories.

Representatives for Bennie Thompson, chair of the January 6 committee, did not respond to requests for comment on the subpoena for Powell's phone records.

In January, the committee issued a subpoena to Powell, along with other Trump lawyers, seeking documents and testimony.

Thompson said in a statement at the time that the four lawyers had advanced theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes.

Powell pushed failed election lawsuits in an attempt to overturn the election results and actively promoted election fraud claims on behalf of Trump, according to the announcement.