WASHINGTON — A provision tucked into the funding bill that reopened the government would allow Sen. Tommy Tuberville and other GOP senators to sue over the seizure of their phone records, but an effort to repeal it is expected next week in the U.S. House.

Tuberville and seven other senators could sue the government for $500,000 and legal fees over the search of their phone records by special counsel Jack Smith during the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The contents of the phone calls were not accessed in the search.

On Thursday, Tuberville said on social media that he would sue if Judge James Boasberg, who signed off on the subpoenas, was not impeached and if Jack Smith was not disbarred and “THROWN IN JAIL.”

“If they aren’t, I will sue the living hell out of every

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