Headline: New York Times, 3/16/2026
Michael S. Schmidt and Alan Feuer report:
But Judge Boasberg found that Ms. Pirro’s office did not even meet the extremely low threshold needed to send the subpoenas, ruling there was “essentially zero evidence to suspect Chair Powell of a crime.” [emphasis added]
The Justice Department had pursued grand jury subpoenas for information about the renovations underway at the Federal Reserve headquarters and Mr. Powell’s testimony to Congress about them.Credit...Caroline Gutman for The New York Times Instead, the judge surmised, the real reason the subpoenas were issued was political: because Mr. Trump wanted to strong-arm Mr. Powell into lowering interest rates.
“The subpoenas’ dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass and pressure Powell either to yield to the president,” Judge Boasberg wrote, “or to resign and make way for a Fed chair who will.”
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