Sen. Blackburn's office says she plans to sue after phone records subpoenaed

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Sen. Marsha Blackburn's office has confirmed that she plans to sue after her phone records were subpoenaed.

A provision tucked into the funding package the Senate passed Monday night as part of a bipartisan deal to reopen the government would allow senators to sue the federal government for potentially millions of dollars if their data is obtained without notifying them, NBC reported.

The legislative language would uniquely benefit eight Republican senators who were recently found to have had their phone records — but not the contents of their calls or messages — accessed as a part of the investigation that led to former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

While the bill does not explicitly mention Smith’s probe, the