Judge rejects RNC lawsuit to stop Salesforce from handing over email data to Jan. 6 panel

A federal judge on Sunday night rejected the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) request to block a subpoena for Salesforce to hand over fundraising emails to the Jan. 6 committee.

The RNC sued the House panel on March 9 after it subpoenaed Salesforce, which tracks donor information for the committee. The RNC also sued Salesforce to block the vendor from handing over data to the committee. 

The committee had been seeking data on fundraising emails from Nov. 3, 2020, to Jan. 6, 2021 when the RNC was circulating emails claiming that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Trump. 

U.S. District judge Timothy Kelly denied the RNC’s claims that the Salesforce subpoena was ‘overbroad’ and ‘seeks sensitive and proprietary data.’ 

But Kelly temporarily barred Salesforce from…