A federal judge has denied Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's attempt to block a subpoena for a former prosecutor who worked on an investigation into former President Donald Trump. The House Judiciary Committee had issued the subpoena to Mark Pomerantz, who wrote a memoir about his time on the investigation, and the committee claimed it was investigating in support of possible legislation that would prevent "politically motivated state and local prosecutions" of current and former presidents. Bragg had accused the Committee and its Republican chair, Rep. Jim Jordan, of engaging in political dogfighting, but Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil wrote that the Committee had a valid legislative purpose for the subpoena. The case posed the question of whether Pomerantz had given up his right to invoke privileges that protect him from divulging information about the investigation.