Mo Brooks is playing hide and seek with Eric Swalwell’s process servers. Swalwell is trying to serve a summons and a copy of Swalwell’s legal complaint regarding the January 6th insurrection attempt by MAGA terrorists to Mo Brooks. Mo Brooks is refusing to waive service, but is trying to evade process servers from Swalwell’s law firm so he can try to eke his way out of a lawsuit on a technicality. Swalwell has now filed a request for an extension citing “the inherent difficulties of attempting service on a sitting Member of Congress.” Swalwell requested an additional sixty days to serve Brooks, and the assistance of the US Marshals service to perform the service.
The court responded by granting Swalwell an additional sixty days to serve Brooks, but -citing separation of powers concerns- refused to order the assistance of the Federal Marshals Service.
Can’t help but if there are any Capitol Police officers who have a side job as a process server and would be willing to carry the documents over to Brooks’s office. There is one caveat in that the documents cannot be served in the House Chamber due to the Speech & Debate clause, and the potential for Brooks’s lawyers to seek to have the case thrown out if he is served within the House Chamber.