Trump Jan. 6 Subpoena Fight Fizzles Out With New Congress

Jan. 4, 2023, 6:45 PM UTC

A federal judge in Florida has dismissed former President Donald Trump’s subpoena fight with the now-disbanded Jan. 6 congressional committee, an unsurprising end to an historically significant chapter of the investigation.

US District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz II on Wednesday agreed with Trump’s lawyers that the case had become moot once the committee withdrew its subpoena for documents and Trump’s testimony in late December. Little had happened in the case since Trump sued the committee in November.

In a dramatic public meeting in October, the committee unanimously voted to subpoena the former president as part of its probe into the ...

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