Attorneys for the House and the Justice Department told a federal judge Monday that a monthslong subpoena fight has so far taken up hundreds of attorney hours at an approximate cost of more than $443,000.
The declarations were filed in response to an order from Judge Ana Reyes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who earlier this year implied the lawsuit was not a good use of taxpayer dollars and argued that taxpayers did not want to pay for a “grudge match” between the executive and legislative branches.
The filings offered a peek into the resources that the House and Justice Department have spent litigating the House Judiciary Committee’s lawsuit, which seeks to compel two Justice Department attorneys to testify about the criminal case against Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.
