Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff who this week stopped cooperating with a congressional committee investigating Jan. 6, is suing that committee over a pair of subpoenas he describes as “overly broad and unduly burdensome.”

The complaint, filed Wednesday in D.C. federal court, asks a judge to invalidate a subpoena issued against him as well as another to Verizon for his phone records. “Without intervention by this court, Mr. Meadows faces the harm of both being illegally coerced into violating the Constitution and having a third party involuntarily violate Mr. Meadows rights and the requirements of relevant laws governing records of electronic communications,” the 43-page complaint reads.

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