Most of the senators whose data was requested as part of the investigation that led to special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 probe have now distanced themselves from a provision included in the shutdown-ending bill , signed into law by President Donald Trump, that would let them sue the government for potentially millions of dollars for not notifying them when accessing their records.

“I have no plans at this time” to sue, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., said in a statement shared with NBC News. “If I did sue, it would only be for the purpose of using the courts to expose the corrupt weaponization of federal law enforcement by the Biden and Obama administrations. With the full cooperation in our congressional investigations from the Trump DOJ and FBI, that shouldn’t be necessary.”

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