Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., a trusted confidant of former president Donald Trump, has withdrawn his lawsuit against the Justice Department asking to release all the FBI’s cell phone data earlier this year.
On Wednesday, Perry’s attorneys submitted a motion to dismiss the lawsuit; however, they did not offer any justifications.
In an emergency motion submitted in federal court in Washington, D.C., in August, Perry, the chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, requested that a judge order investigators return his phone data and prevent them from obtaining or reviewing any additional phone records held by his cell provider, AT&T.
According to the petition, Perry’s phone was taken by federal investigators who contacted him when the Republican congressman and his family were on vacation in New Jersey in August. Perry received his phone back the same day after agents took a picture of its contents using a search warrant for the device. Perry’s attorney, John Irving, declared in a statement following the seizure that the DOJ had told him Perry “is not a focus of its investigation.”
