Showing posts with label subpoena. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subpoena. Show all posts

Friday, September 4, 2026

Billionaire Leon Black skips Epstein deposition and sues House committee over subpoenas | PBS News

"The Committee is on a fishing expedition that oversteps its authority and completely ignores its responsibility," Black's attorney, Susan Estrich, said in a statement. "This is no longer about finding the truth about Epstein. It is about trying to destroy Mr. Black."…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/billionaire-leon-black-skips-epstein-deposition-and-sues-house-committee-over-subpoenas


 

Saturday, August 15, 2026

BBC seeks to subpoena Trump family members in defamation suit - POLITICO

Lawyers for the BBC say the Trump family members “without question have personal knowledge” about President Trump’s intentions in delivering the speech at the heart of the case: his Jan. 6, 2021, address to supporters at the Ellipse as the Capitol attack was getting underway...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/14/bbc-subpoena-donald-trump-family-01038107


 

Monday, July 13, 2026

Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists over new Air Force One reporting

Seth Stern, the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s director of advocacy, said in a separate statement that “when the government claims it needs to investigate journalists to protect national security, it really means its own reputational security”. 

 “The administration’s embarrassment” over the reported security concerns “does not supersede the need for a free and independent press”, Stern’s statement also said...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/11/justice-department-subpoenas-new-york-times-air-force-one 


Thursday, June 11, 2026

Top DOJ official planned to make a claim with Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ - POLITICO

A top Justice Department staffer responsible for liaising with Congress planned to make a claim with President Donald Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” and asked to recuse himself from any work related to it — a move that alarmed colleagues at the DOJ, two administration officials familiar with the matter told POLITICO...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/10/doj-official-sought-weaponization-fund-patrick-davis-00955341 


Thursday, May 21, 2026

House Judiciary Republicans reject subpoenas for architects of new 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' - Live Updates - POLITICO

House Republicans rejected a bid from Judiciary Committee Democrats to subpoena several administration officials involved in the establishment of a new, $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” that’s been cast as a self-enrichment scheme for President Donald Trump’s allies.

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/05/20/congress/republicans-reject-subpoenas-related-to-doj-fund-00930486


 

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Inside Congress Live

The subpoena comes after Bondi sparred with lawmakers during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last month, repeatedly declining to answer questions about her handling of the documents and instead hurling insults at lawmakers who challenged her...

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/17/congress/pam-bondi-house-oversight-subpoena-00831865 


 

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Court blocks probe of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, DOJ to appeal - POLITICO

"There is abundant evidence that the subpoenas' dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass and pressure Powell either to yield to the President or to resign and make way for a Fed Chair who will," Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote. "The Government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the President."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/court-blocks-dojs-probe-of-fed-chair-jerome-powell-00828448 


 



 

 

 

 

Saturday, March 7, 2026

Pam Bondi’s in trouble with Republicans on Capitol Hill - POLITICO

In a news conference Thursday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Bondi and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller — an architect of the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement agenda — have "got to go." 

 "We're going to approach those two toxic individuals with the same intensity that has now led to the termination of Kristi Noem," Jeffries added…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/06/pam-bondi-epstein-subpoena-00816820


 

Thursday, March 5, 2026

House committee subpoenas Pam Bondi to testify on her handling of the Epstein case - POLITICO

Five Republicans joined with all Democrats in support of a motion to call the nation's top law enforcement official up to Capitol Hill for questioning, and the motion itself was offered by GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/04/pam-bondi-subpoena-epstien-00812960 


 

Friday, February 20, 2026

BREAKING: Georgia State Election Board hires private investigator, subpoenas

The Georgia State Election Board has hired a private investigator and subpoenaed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger weeks after the FBI raided a state election hub for 2020 ballots. This comes as President Trump heads to Georgia during early voting in a special election race. MS NOW Senior White House Vaughn Hillyard has the latest updates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WNc6h3wsfk

 

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Clintons defy subpoena to testify in Epstein investigation, risking being held in contempt - POLITICO

They also brushed off threats of legal action by arguing that, because the subpoenas issued to the Clintons are "not related to a valid legislative purpose," the subpoenas are therefore "invalid and legally unenforceable."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/13/clintons-defy-subpoena-to-testify-in-epstein-investigation-risking-being-held-in-contempt-00724394  


Thursday, December 4, 2025

Inside Congress Live

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the committee's top Democrat, defended the former special counsel and his tactics in a statement and questioned why Republicans are insisting on having Smith testify behind closed doors. But he also criticized the phone record request targeting Jordan, which was issued before Smith was named to his post...

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/03/congress/jack-smith-subpoena-house-judiciary-00674387 


 

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Justice Dept. subpoenas on care for transgender minors has chilling effect - The Washington Post

The Justice Department is demanding that hospitals turn over a wide range of sensitive information related to medical care for young transgender patients, including billing documents, communication with drug manufacturers and data such as patient dates of birth, Social Security numbers and addresses, according to a copy of a subpoena made public in a court filing this week…


Monday, January 27, 2025

Johnson aide discouraged Hutchinson subpoena over concerns about lawmakers’ ‘sexual texts’ - The Washington Post

An aide to House Speaker Mike Johnson advised Republican colleagues against subpoenaing former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson as part of their investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack in an effort to prevent the release of sexually explicit texts that lawmakers sent her, according to written correspondence reviewed by The Washington Post and a person familiar with the effort...

Thursday, September 26, 2024

US Senate votes unanimously to hold hospital CEO in criminal contempt

Investigations by the Boston Globe revealed that as more than a dozen Steward Health Care patients died in recent years after being unable to receive adequate treatment, De la Torre embarked on various jet travels and private yacht excursions across the Caribbean and French Riviera. 

The Boston Globe also revealed that De la Torre frequently used the hospital chain's bank account as his own, including to make purchases to renovate an €8m ($8.9m) apartment in Madrid and to make donations of millions of dollars to his children's private school...







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