In a legal filing submitted Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s norm-breaking Committee on Jan. 6 claimed its open pursuit of opposition records in what is being called a modern-day “digital Watergate” is above the law.

An opposition memo filed in response to an RNC lawsuit over the committee’s broad subpoena demanding sensitive personal information on the party’s donors and supporters asserts Pelosi’s weaponized probe designed to persecute political dissidents is not subject to any executive or judicial oversight.

“The RNC cannot demonstrate a likelihood of success because the Speech or Debate Clause bars its lawsuit and its application for injunctive relief,” the committee wrote arguing the Constitution’s protection of congressional independence. “The Clause provides that ‘any Speech or Debate in either House, [Senators and Representatives] shall not be questioned in any other Place.’”