By Akriti Sharma

(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Court rejected Sunday the Republican National Committee’s request to stop a subpoena requesting that its email vendor release information to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6th, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

After it subpoenaed Salesforce Inc (NYSE:) Inc to organize donor information, the RNC sued Congress’ House panel. In a statement, the committee stated that it needed to know the contents of the RNC emails in weeks leading up to the Capitol attack. The email flow included statements by RNC officials that suggested the theft of the 2020 election.

Timothy Kelly, U.S. District Judge thrown out claims by the RNC that the Salesforce subpoena had been “overbroad” to seek sensitive data. Court records show Kelly’s dismissal.

Salesforce was also temporarily prohibited by the judge from disclosing any records to its Jan.6 committee. Salesforce had until May 5 to appeal.

In July, the House Select Committee was formed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the attack at the Capitol by mobs made up of supporters of Donald Trump.

RNC claimed the subpeona was “a fishing expedition” which would “chill out the First Amendment rights of the RNC, its supporters.”

The committee also stated that Trump’s campaign and RNC had sought donations to fund their campaigns after 2020.

A representative of RNC declined to comment on Reuters’s request via LinkedIn for comment after regular working hours. Requests for comment were also not answered by Salesforce or the House panel.

The U.S. lobbying powerhouse Brownstein Hyatt Farben Schreck quit representing the RNC during its legal challenge to Salesforce.