The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump‘s impending New York criminal trial on Friday denied his bid to subpoena NBCUniversal for information involving a key witness in the hush money case, adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump had subpoenaed NBCUniversal for information related to “Stormy,” a documentary on the actress that recently premiered on […]
Judge Juan Merchan blocks an attempt by former President Donald Trump to force NBCUniversal to hand over information about the release of its recent documentary about adult film star Stormy Daniels. The ruling comes two days after Merchan refused to delay the April 15 start of the hush money trial in which Trump is accused […]
(Adds requests for comment in paragraph 4, background in paragraphs 8, 10-11, details from court order in paragraph 9) By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, April 5 (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s subpoena to Comcast-owned NBCUniversal for material related to a recent documentary about porn star Stormy Daniels was blocked on Friday by the judge overseeing the […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s subpoena to Comcast-owned NBCUniversal for material related to a recent documentary about porn star Stormy Daniels was blocked on Friday by the judge overseeing the former U.S. president’s April 15 criminal trial. Justice Juan Merchan said Trump’s claim that Daniels and NBC conspired to release the film close to the […]
An attempt by D.C. bar authorities to force former Justice Department attorney Jeff Clark to fork over documents — part of an effort to potentially disbar the former President Donald Trump ally — would violate his Fifth Amendment rights, a D.C. appeals court panel ruled Monday. In a brief order, the three-judge panel of the […]
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Republicans’ subpoena of voter information after the 2020 election was unenforceable, overturning a previous court ruling. The commonwealth’s highest court ruled in Wednesday’s brief order that the subpoena was unenforceable because the 2021-22 legislative session had already ended. The move is the latest legal defeat for Republicans […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled Wednesday that Republican state lawmakers can no longer try to enforce a subpoena for a wide range of election records they issued in 2021 in a quest inspired by former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. The court, in a brief […]
The chair of the House panel investigating the COVID-19 pandemic threatened to subpoena Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials Friday over a lack of cooperation with the committee’s investigation unless they answer another round of specific questions. In a letter sent to HHS Assistant Secretary for Legislation Melanie Egorin, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) […]
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, subpoenaed Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis, demanding the prosecutor turn over documents from her office in response to allegations that she fired an ex-employee who advised a campaign aide against improperly using federal funds. “These allegations raise serious concerns about whether you were appropriately supervising the […]
Plaintiffs in a North Carolina election lawsuit have asked a federal court to compel Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who advised former President Donald Trump, to respond to their subpoena. The motion, filed in court on Wednesday, alleges that Mitchell influenced the creation of Senate Bill 747, a wide-ranging piece of election legislation that’s at the […]
WASHINGTON — A subpoena recently issued to the House sergeant at arms pertains to a Democratic lawmaker and his or her use of federal funds for a security vendor, two sources familiar with the matter said Monday. The identity of the lawmaker was not immediately known. The clerk publicly informed lawmakers of the subpoena request […]
Rep. Virginia Foxx, the Republican chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, is threatening to subpoena Harvard University for documents in what appears to be a widening investigation into alleged antisemitism on college campuses. “We thought Harvard would take this more seriously,” Foxx told CNN in a phone interview. Harvard responded to the committee’s […]