Latest Subpoenas News

Trump lawyers say Stormy Daniels refused subpoena outside a Brooklyn bar, papers left 'at her feet'

Apr. 17, 2024 21:58 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving Stormy Daniels a subpoena as she arrived for an event at a bar in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor, who is expected to be a witness at the former president's criminal trial, refused to take it and walked away. ...

Republicans threaten to hold Attorney General Garland in contempt over Biden documents case

Mar. 25, 2024 18:12 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans threatened to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress if he did not turn over unredacted materials related to the special counsel probe into President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents. In a letter Monday —...

Subpoenas on Maui agencies and officials delay release of key report into deadly wildfire

Mar. 18, 2024 21:23 PM EDT

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s attorney general on Monday blamed a delay of the release of a key report into a deadly Maui wildfire on county agencies that forced investigators to issue subpoenas. The first phase of an independent investigation into the Aug. 8 fire that killed at...

Lawyer behind effort to remove Fani Willis from Georgia Trump case testifies before state lawmakers

Mar. 06, 2024 17:32 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — The lawyer who initiated the effort to remove Fani Willis from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump walked state lawmakers through her investigation into the Fulton County district attorney's romantic relationship with a special prosecutor and why she...

House Republicans send new Justice Department subpoenas in impeachment inquiry, drawing pushback

Mar. 01, 2024 13:48 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is pushing back against a new set of subpoenas quietly sent out by House Republicans related to the Hunter Biden criminal investigation in another brewing faceoff in the President Joe Biden impeachment inquiry. The...

Pennsylvania's high court throws out GOP lawmakers' subpoena in 2020 presidential election case

Feb. 21, 2024 17:46 PM EST

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...

Judge to consider whether to remove District Attorney Fani Willis from Georgia election case

Feb. 14, 2024 09:27 AM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge who is deciding whether to toss Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis off of the state's election interference case against former President Donald Trump has set a hearing for Thursday that is expected to focus on details of Willis' personal relationship with...

Maine mass shooting commission gets subpoena power

Feb. 13, 2024 16:59 PM EST

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The independent commission investigating the deadliest shooting in Maine history was granted subpoena power to compel witnesses to testify or produce documents Tuesday. The governor signed bipartisan legislation after commissioners said they needed the ability...

Georgia Republicans say Fani Willis inquiry isn't a 'witch hunt,' but Democrats doubt good faith

Feb. 09, 2024 18:31 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — The Republican leading a specially-appointed Georgia state Senate committee that's supposed to investigate whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis committed misconduct proclaimed repeatedly Friday during the panel's first meeting that he seeks just the facts, but the...

Georgia district attorney prosecuting Trump has been subpoenaed over claims of improper relationship

Jan. 31, 2024 16:51 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and a special prosecutor she hired for the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump have been issued subpoenas by a defense attorney who has alleged Willis and the prosecutor had an inappropriate romantic...