NEW YORK—A Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday that the House Judiciary Committee and its chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), can subpoena a former prosecutor who worked for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, a Trump appointee, ordered that the lower chamber’s Judiciary Committee has the authority to become involved in the investigation of former President Donald Trump.
Specifically, Vyskocil granted—over Bragg’s objection—that Jordan could subpoena Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor in Bragg’s office, for his testimony related to his investigation of Trump.
The judge’s Wednesday order means that Pomerantz must testify before the House Judiciary Committee on April 20. Pomerantz could be subject to criminal liabilities by testifying in Congress, one of Bragg’s attorneys said during the hearing on Wednesday. Pomerantz could also be held in contempt of Congress if he does not cooperate with requests of Congress’s requests, his lawyers said in a Monday filing, which puts the former prosecutor in a catch-22 situation….