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How to use the word subpoena in a Sentence?

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I am going to fight the Biden DOJ subpoena for me to appear before the grand jury because I believe it’s unconstitutional and unprecedented.

Mike Pence

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have made multiple good faith attempts to find common ground so we could see this critical piece of information. Unfortunately, Secretary Blinken has refused to provide the Dissent Cable and his response to the cable, forcing me to issue my first subpoena as chairman of this committee.

Michael McCaul

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I presented to the United States government a signed subpoena requiring the presence of Donald J. Trump at the Proud Boy trial sometime in March.

Norman Pattis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ll see, but we’re definitely looking at asking for documents via subpoena, but we don’t know whether that will happen yet.

Robert Hur

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Unfortunately, political stunts like subpoena threats from the minority suggest House Republicans might be spending more time thinking about how to get booked on ‘Hannity’ than on preparing to work together to help the American people.

Ian Sams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As we have over the past two years, we intend to work in good faith to provide appropriate information to Congress, but Americans have made clear they expect their leaders in Washington to work together on their top priorities, like lowering costs. That’s what the president will focus on, and we hope House Republicans join him, unfortunately, political stunts like subpoena threats from the minority suggest House Republicans might be spending more time thinking about how to get booked on ‘Hannity’ than on preparing to work together to help the American people.

Ian Sams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We will maintain our new majority on committees, exercise our subpoena power and be able to clear nominees without discharge votes.

Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I believe she’s a good and effective senator and am looking forward to a productive session in the new Democratic majority Senate, we will maintain our new majority on committees, exercise our subpoena power and be able to clear nominees without discharge votes.

Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If President Trump was central to the January 6th Committee's proceedings, why are they ending with him rather than starting with him? with a few weeks before the midterm elections and a few months until Republicans assume majority control of Congress, reasonable people can be excused for thinking this subpoena is somewhere between symbolic and suspicious.

Kellyanne Conway

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Today’s subpoena of President Donald J. Trump less than one month from the midterm elections is a desperate political ploy by Democrats and their mainstream media stenographer allies.

The House

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Let me just say, I think the driver on this from the beginning was loads of classified information sitting in Mar-a-Lago. People say this [ raid ] was unprecedented -- well, it's also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay, and how long is the government going to try to get that back ? They jawboned for a year, they were deceived on the voluntary actions taken, they went and got a subpoena, they were deceived on that they feel, and the facts are starting to show that they were being jerked around.

William Barr

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mr. Zatko will comply with his legal obligations of that subpoena and his appearance at the deposition is involuntary, he did not make his whistleblower disclosures to the appropriate governmental bodies to benefit Elon Musk or to harm Twitter, but rather to protect the American public and Twitter shareholders.

Debra Katz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And only a few days before, when the case agents attempted to interview him and serve him with a subpoena at his residence, the Defendant at first refused to open the door and then, when he did, told the agents to' get the f *** out of here,'.

Justice Department

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The FBI raid was unprecedented for America, but familiar to those in Florida who fled nations where political opposition was criminalized If voters put us back in the majority we better have the guts to subpoena the records make those who authorized this testify under oath.

Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Read MoreHer lengthy testimony made clear Steve Bannon had a duty to comply, that Steve Bannon testimony was pertinent and that Steve Bannon violated the subpoena deliberately. That was enough for a conviction. Opinion : Steve Bannons new ployThe defense raised two issues at the beginning of the trial to try to justify Bannon's lack of compliance. First, they claimed that Steve Bannon was still negotiating with the committee after Steve Bannon failure to produce subpoenaed documents and to appear, and before Congress held Steve Bannon in contempt. But the evidence showed that Steve Bannon never asked the committee to move the deadline for Steve Bannon appearance. And the day after Steve Bannon subpoena deadline passed, Steve Bannon verified Gettr account posted :.

Steve Bannon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Location data brokers are in the business of peddling our whereabouts including visits to doctors, they are already providing access to law enforcement for a fee. No subpoena necessary.

Danielle Citron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And I felt like in what I could do as a journalist, my role was limited… The Biden administration can ignore us, and we unfortunately don't have subpoena power as journalists.

Matthew Foldi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We intend to adjudicate Mr. Meadows' rights in connection with that subpoena as fully and completely as we can.

George Terwilliger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today, I stood up for Upstate NY families who tragically lost 20 people in the tragic Schoharie County limo crash that could have been avoided had the FBI not turned a blind eye to the criminal actions of the driver – an FBI informant – and his company's long history of negligence. It is part of Congress' job to conduct proper oversight of the FBI's activities, and I will not hesitate to compel all FBI documents regarding the tragic Schoharie County limo crash with a Congressional subpoena next year in a Republican Majority.

Elise Stefanik

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One potential hurdle that the committee must consider is a lawmaker citing the Speech and Debate Clause, which states that a sitting member of Congress is protected from certain inquiries and procedures that originate outside of Congress. But members on the panel and legal scholars alike do not see that as an issue.Michael Flynn sues January 6 committee to block phone records subpoena.

The Speech and Debate Clause

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To add to the absurdity, neither the committee nor JPMorgan Chase will provide me with a copy of the actual contents of the subpoena.

Taylor Budowich

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Then there is another president who is in office at that time, so the considerations in terms of the separation of powers between the branches shift, because you do have the executive and the legislature -- and the person who is subject of the subpoena and the entities associated with that person are neither of those.

Sri Srinivasan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My legal team put together a letter responding to the subpoena request, explaining all the reasons why I was going to assert my privileges under the Fifth Amendment, not to come testify and not to produce all these documents.

John Eastman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's nobody who just outright rejected the subpoena process like Steve Bannon. Everybody else is somewhere in the mix.

Bennie Thompson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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