Hours before an ex-prosecutor was scheduled to appear before a House committee investigating the Manhattan prosecution of former President Donald Trump, a federal appeals court issued a stay that will delay the testimony.
Jordan and Trump have claimed Trump was charged as political retribution by Bragg, a Democrat. Trump entered a not guilty plea on April 4 to 34 felony counts of falsification of business records.working on the Trump investigation
for a year, and penned a memoir about the job. Matthew Berry, an attorney for the committee, said during a court hearing Wednesday that Pomerantz was subpoenaed as part of an effort to determine how much federal funding was used in the Manhattan probe, and if politics came into play during the investigation.
Pomerantz's subpoena called for him to appear before the Committee at 10 a.m. Thursday, but the administrative stay granted by the appeals court will at least temporarily postpone that appearance. The court wrote in its brief order that it"reflects no judgment regarding the merits of the parties' respective positions."
Bragg's appeal was filed after Vyskocil ruled Wednesday that the"sole question before the Court at this time is whether Bragg has a legal basis to quash a congressional subpoena that was issued with a valid legislative purpose." A spokesperson for the Judiciary Committee did not immediately return a request for comment.
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