{"id":15906,"date":"2025-11-21T15:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/warren-davidson-slams-lindsey-graham-over-senate-data-payout-provision\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:32:04","slug":"warren-davidson-slams-lindsey-graham-over-senate-data-payout-provision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/warren-davidson-slams-lindsey-graham-over-senate-data-payout-provision\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Davidson slams Lindsey Graham over Senate data payout provision"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Warren Davidson on Friday denounced Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for his plans to capitalize on a new measure that allows senators \u2014 but not House members or the general public \u2014 to sue the federal government for accessing their electronic data without proper notice.<\/p>\n

The provision, inserted by Senate Majority Leader John Thune in last week\u2019s shutdown-ending continuing resolution, was written for senators targeted in former special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s investigation into President Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Senator wants the Constitution to protect him (Senators), but no one else,\u201d Davidson (R-Ohio) wrote Friday morning on X<\/a>. \u201cLiterally no one other than a United States Senator could sue for damages. The House unanimously opposed this corrupt carve out for Senators. Protect every American citizen. End 3rd party doctrine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) disclosed records in October<\/a> that Smith\u2019s investigation obtained phone records of nine GOP members of Congress. The eight senators on the list would be eligible to sue under the current provision, but Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), the lone House member, is not.<\/p>\n

The House on Wednesday voted 426-0 to reverse the provision language<\/a>, but it is unlikely to be taken up further in the Senate, where Thune doesn\u2019t appear bothered by<\/a> the discord within the GOP.<\/p>\n

Graham\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the longtime South Carolina senator has proposed expanding the class of people given standing to sue<\/a> under the provision to \u201cany private group\u201d targeted by Smith over the course of his investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of us who were wronged need to have a remedy to that wrong,\u201d he said in a speech at the Capitol on Thursday. \u201cAnd we\u2019re creating a chance to go to court for what happened to us in a fashion to make sure it never happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Warren Davidson on Friday denounced Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for his plans to capitalize on a new measure that allows senators \u2014 but not House members or the general public \u2014 to sue the federal government for accessing their electronic data without proper notice. The provision, inserted by Senate Majority Leader John Thune in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}