House Republicans are pursuing charges to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to appear for a closed-door deposition—part of the House’s impeachment inquiry into President Biden. NTD spoke with attorney and former Congressman Bob Barr, who was one of the House managers during former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial.
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) blasted Hunter Biden on Wednesday, accusing him of showing a “blatant disregard” for Congress by ignoring a House subpoena issued as part of an impeachment inquiry concerning his father, President Joe Biden. The Indiana Congresswoman made her remarks at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on whether a contempt charge should be […]
A non-profit pregnancy resource center filed a lawsuit against New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin on Monday over what it called an “unconstitutional subpoena” issued by his office last month. According to the lawsuit, Mr. Platkin issued a subpoena to First Choice Women’s Resource Centers on Nov. 15, alleging potential violations of the New Jersey […]
Shortly after Hunter Biden refused a congressional subpoena for a private deposition before Republican investigators, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned President Joe Biden’s prior awareness of his son’s intentions. Hunter Biden later arrived at the Capitol, delivering a prepared speech criticizing House Republicans and aiming to discredit the investigation, ultimately choosing to ignore […]
The Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee canceled for the third time a scheduled vote on issuing subpoenas against two private citizens connected to conservative Supreme Court justices. The scuttling of the committee’s business meeting on Nov. 16 came after the Supreme Court unexpectedly unveiled a code of conduct (pdf) for the nine justices on Nov. 13. […]
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, has asked a court to issue subpoenas to four individuals—including former President Donald Trump—claiming that the criminal probe that led to tax and gun charges against him may have been a politically-driven “vindictive or selective prosecution.” The Nov. 15 filing demands that the court issue subpoenas for documents […]
In the latest development in the House Judiciary Committee’s probe into whether major climate groups may be violating federal antitrust laws, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) subpoenaed a coalition of financial institutions and a corporate social responsibility advocacy group earlier this week, after they allegedly failed to respond to requests for documents. NTD spoke with Epoch […]
Republicans on Aug. 21 subpoenaed Department of Homeland (DHS) Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for details on the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) parole program. The program—in place since Jan. 6—allows 30,000 foreign nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to be paroled into the interior each month. In October 2022, the administration announced it […]
Independent journalist Steve Baker says he was served a subpoena signed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Anita Eve, demanding all of the video he shot at and near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He said the subpoena likely means the DOJ is investigating him for alleged felony crimes. “They want to silence me,” Mr. Baker […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci wanted top Biden administration officials to try to get a deposition subpoena quashed, newly obtained emails show. Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser until recently, questioned in one of the emails why the administration was fighting against a subpoena for a former White House press secretary but not his. “If they […]
An appeals court in Pennsylvania has refused to force the Department of State to release personal voter information to Senate Republicans for their ongoing investigation into the 2020 election, but it left the door open for the probe to continue by saying they have the power to enforce the subpoena themselves. In its long-running probe into […]
The Jan. 6 House select committee has withdrawn its subpoena of former President Donald Trump. Trump and his attorney celebrated the decision. The panel’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), said in a letter to Trump’s attorneys that the committee is no longer pursuing the subpoena that was issued in October for the former president’s testimony […]
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he plans to issue subpoenas to 51 former U.S. intelligence officials who downplayed the New York Post’s report on Hunter Biden’s laptop in the fall of 2020 as a likely Russian disinformation scheme. “Those 51 intel agents that signed a letter that said the Hunter Biden information was […]
Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit seeking to block a subpoena issued by the House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. The Jan. 6 Committee subpoena asks Trump to hand over certain documents, and to testify in a “closed-door deposition” about the events that took place while he was the president, the […]
A federal judge on Monday dismissed former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s legal challenge against a subpoena issued by the House Jan. 6 committee for his testimony. Meadows tried to assert executive privilege to shield himself from the controversial Democrat-led probe, but the judge concluded that the subpoenas are protected legislative acts. That is, […]
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach announced Friday it sent a subpoena to former President Donald Trump. The committee, in a letter (pdf), wrote that it has ” assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff,” that Trump “oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.” Trump […]
A federal appeals court has denied Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) request to block a subpoena for his testimony before a special grand jury in Georgia in a probe into possible unlawful interference in the 2020 election. The three-judge panel from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did, however, agree with a lower court ruling to restrict the scope of questions to […]
Former President Donald Trump on Friday responded to the House Jan. 6 panel’s vote to subpoena him with less than a month to go before the 2022 midterms. In a 15-page letter (pdf) to the panel, the former president did not indicate whether he would testify after members of the panel voted to approve the […]
Former President Donald Trump on Oct. 13 denounced the Jan. 6 committee, after the Democrat-dominated panel voted unanimously to subpoena him. “Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago? Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting?” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account. “Because […]
The House Jan. 6 Committee on Oct. 13 voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump over his role in the events of Jan. 6. The resolution, submitted by Ranking Member Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), was passed by the committee unanimously in a 9–0 vote. “Our duty today is to our country, our duty, and our Constitution,” […]
