It was updated on Mar 1, 2022, at 05:19pm.
Lawmakers investigating the Capitol riot subpoenaed six lawyers with alleged ties to several of former President Donald Trump's dubious last-ditch strategies to stay in office.
A group of Trump supporters raise flags and signs on the grounds of the Capitol building.
The committee subpoenaed the lawyer who was on the phone call with Trump in which he lied about voter fraud in Georgia.
The Department of Justice subpoenaed Kurt Olsen because he pushed the department to file a legal complaint against Biden in the last minute.
According to a Washington Examiner article, the final subpoena went to Phillip Kline, who helped organize a call between Trump and hundreds of state legislators to disseminate purported evidence of election fraud.
Forbes has reached out to the six individuals or their lawyers for comment, after they were told to submit documents to the select committee.
The January 6 select committee has subpoenaed dozens of former Trump Administration officials and allies, seeking information about the Capitol riot and Trump's months-long push to stay in office despite losing to Biden. After the Trump campaign's dozens of lawsuits seeking to overturn state-level election results largely failed in late 2020, the former president's allies began weighing a set of unprecedented and untested strategies to reverse the election's outcome. Trump and his attorneys pushed state legislators and officials to overturn Biden's wins in multiple states, Giuliani and Powell discussed whether to take federal custody of voting equipment, and the campaign reportedly orchestrated a scheme to draft Electoral College certificates falsely presenting Trump as
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