Republican gubernatorial contender Scott Lively is asking a court to expedite discovery in a $7 million lawsuit against Massachusetts GOP officials, including Gov. Charlie Baker.

Lively — a controversial Trump-backing minister and attorney from Springfield whose writings include allegations that gays heavily influenced the Nazi Party — filed the suit last week in Worcester Superior Court, claiming breach of contract after supposedly neutral party officials held events and gathered signatures for Baker.

The suit also alleges unfair trade practices, defamation for comments made by Baker and House Minority Leader Bradley Jones Jr., an equal rights claim and civil conspiracy. He’s asking for $7 million, plus additional damages, and removal of all Republican party officials involved.

Lively told the Herald he’s filed an amended suit asking for expedited discovery to bring to light what he sees as corruption in the party before its September primary.

“The reason I’m running is, somebody has to step up and be willing to steer Massachusetts out of this sewer of corruption that’s produced scandal after scandal after scandal,” Lively said. “Charlie Baker is somebody perpetuating the same swamp he inherited, and he’s added to it. And that has got to stop.”

Baker’s campaign, MassGOP and state committee Chairman Kirsten Hughes declined to comment on the suit. Jones did not return messages seeking comment.

Lively’s lawsuit says the Massachusetts Republican State Committee violated its own neutrality bylaws that outlaw giving preference or support to any single candidate running in a primary by assisting Baker with gathering signatures and fundraising. When Lively confronted the party about its backing of Baker, the committee changed its bylaws to condone the support, the lawsuit says.

Lively won nearly 28 percent of the nomination vote at the MassGOP state convention in April, enough to make it onto the September ballot by a wide margin. He claims in the suit that the convention vote tally might have been altered to allot him fewer votes.

Lively says in the lawsuit Baker defamed him by saying after the convention, “There’s no place and no point in public life, in any life, for a lot of the things Scott Lively says and believes,” according to the lawsuit.