NEW YORK — A federal judge shot down a request by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Wednesday to halt House Republicans from questioning a former prosecutor about his office’s investigation into ex-President Donald Trump.
Manhattan Federal Court Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil’s written decision came less than two hours after she heard arguments in a tense hearing, with the DA’s legal team seeking to persuade her to bar the GOP Judiciary Committee led by Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan from enforcing a subpoena on Mark Pomerantz in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Bragg sued the committee last week, alleging their inquiry into his Trump case represented a “brazen and unconstitutional attack.”
The Trump-appointed judge found Bragg has no “legal basis to quash a congressional subpoena that was issued with a valid legislative purpose.”
