{"id":1917547,"date":"2023-04-21T05:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T09:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appeals-court-grants-braggs-request-to-temporarily-freeze-house-subpeona\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T05:27:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T09:27:31","slug":"appeals-court-grants-braggs-request-to-temporarily-freeze-house-subpeona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appeals-court-grants-braggs-request-to-temporarily-freeze-house-subpeona\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Grants Bragg\u2019s Request to Temporarily Freeze House Subpeona"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fappeals-court-grants-braggs-request-to-temporarily-freeze-house-subpeona%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1917547&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0420\/9ba6dc44-45de-41f6-99b0-97e254439026\/audio.mp3?length=3604077&#038;duration=300\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals on April 20 issued a temporary administrative hold on the return date of the House Judiciary Committee\u2019s congressional subpoena to Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Pomerantz investigated former President Donald Trump\u2019s finances before leaving Bragg\u2019s office in February 2022 in protest of Bragg\u2019s initial unwillingness to bring an indictment against Trump. Bragg then brought the indictment against Trump in late March, prompting Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, to initiate a probe into what Jordan calls a \u201cpolitically motivated\u201d prosecution against a former president. Jordan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/jordan-subpoenas-former-manhattan-prosecutor-who-pushed-for-trump-indictment_5176674.html\">subpoenaed<\/a> Pomerantz to seek his testimony. In response, Bragg sued the House Judiciary Committee and Pomerantz to prevent Pomerantz from testifying.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court\u2019s April 20 order temporarily froze a lower court\u2019s ruling on April 19 that declined Bragg\u2019s request to block Pomerantz from testifying to Congress. It delays\u00a0Pomerantz\u2019s testimony until the appeals court decides whether the subpoena should be put on hold permanently or the lower court\u2019s decision reversed.<\/p>\n<p>The court indicated that the order doesn\u2019t reflect its opinion of the merit of Bragg\u2019s case but is only a temporary hold to allow it to review Bragg\u2019s application. The court instructed the parties to complete court filings on a permanent stay on the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>It came as the latest development in the legal clash between House Judiciary Committee lawmakers, which centers on the question of whether Congress has the authority to become involved in the Manhattan DA\u2019s prosecution of a former president.<\/p>\n<p>District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, a Trump appointee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/67168488\/44\/bragg-v-jordan\/\">ordered<\/a>\u00a0on April 19 that the congressional panel has the authority to become involved in the investigation of Trump because it has legitimate legislative interests.<\/p>\n<p>The lower court\u2019s order, a victory for the Judiciary Committee\u2019s lawmakers, came after an hour-long verbal clash between Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., counsel for Bragg, and House general counsel Matthew Berry in the Southern District Court of New York.<\/p>\n<p>In her order, Vyskocil ruled in favor of the congressional lawmakers, affirming their stance that the subpoena they issued on Pomerantz serves legitimate legislative purposes and is thus protected from lawsuits by the speech and debate clause of the U.S. Constitution. That clause protects federal legislators from lawsuits for actions that serve a valid legislative purpose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not the role of the federal judiciary to dictate what legislation Congress may consider or how it should conduct its deliberations in that connection,\u201d the judge wrote in her ruling. \u201cMr. Pomerantz must appear for the congressional deposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is above the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vyskocil agreed with the House Judiciary Committee\u2019s argument that Congress has a legislative interest because House lawmakers introduced legislation that Pomerantz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals on April 20 issued a temporary administrative hold on the return date of the House Judiciary Committee\u2019s congressional subpoena to Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s office. Pomerantz investigated former President Donald Trump\u2019s finances before leaving Bragg\u2019s office in February 2022 in protest of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":720,"featured_media":1917548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7420,22317,4733,11700,5876,3653,4451,24790,12317],"class_list":["post-1917547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-appeals","tag-braggs","tag-court","tag-freeze","tag-grants","tag-house","tag-request","tag-subpeona","tag-temporarily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}