Subpoena

After the Jan. 6 House committee vote to subpoena Donald Trump, here's what to know about congressional subpoenas.

Capitol on The bipartisan House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. The move marked the culmination of the committee’s year-and-a-half-long investigation.

All nine members of the committee voted to subpoena the former president to testify before them. Presidential subpoenas are complicated but not ...

[Trump has dodged a subpoena before](https://www.npr.org/live-updates/house-jan-6-hearing-10-13-2022#trump-has-dodged-a-subpoena-before-in-an-unrelated-case) in an unrelated case earlier this year. "We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion," she said. [weekly Politics Newsletter](http://n.pr/politicsnewsletter) or listen to the NPR Politics Podcast on [Apple](https://n.pr/3Mq3rNc) or [Spotify](https://n.pr/3CrSypC).

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol voted unanimously Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump.

Asked after the hearing whether the committee is prepared to fight over a subpoena in court, Thompson said, “Let’s see what happens," adding of Trump, "We hope that he honors it." Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., said the investigation "has its own life, and we keep finding new information." The resolution to subpoena Trump passed with the support of all members, 9-0. He predicted that "Trump-endorsed candidates will sweep the Midterms" next month "and America First leadership & solutions will be restored." [would not be the first former president subpoenaed by Congress](https://www.justsecurity.org/61535/congress-subpoena-trump-testify/). Because the Committee is a total 'BUST' that has only served to further divide our Country,” the post said. He’s required to answer to those millions of Americans whose votes he wanted to throw out as part of his scheme to remain in power," Thompson said, acknowledging the move as a "serious and extraordinary action." In its wide-ranging investigation, the panel has already conducted more than 1,000 interviews and depositions. He’s required to answer to those police officers who put their lives and bodies on the line to defend our democracy. 6 attack on the Capitol voted unanimously Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump. Sources familiar with the committee's plans told NBC News about the subpoena earlier Thursday. The panel's chair, Rep.

The panel focused on the role of former President Donald Trump, alleging he was front and center of a plot to overturn the 2020 election and in a historic ...

6 committee unanimously voted to subpoena Trump. But our duty today is to our country and our children and our Constitution. When asked if he thinks Trump will honor the subpoena for his testimony, Thompson responded "ask Donald Trump." "Why didn't the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago?" 6 committee on Thursday, after a months-long hiatus, held its ninth public hearing since June, and possibly its last in its investigation into the U.S. The House Jan.

The US congressional committee investigating last year's Capitol riot is issuing a legal summons for former President Donald Trump to testify.

"Because the Committee is a total 'BUST' that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly - A laughing stock all over the World?" "Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting?" And every American is entitled to those answers."

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot voted to subpoena former President Donald Trump during a hearing.

6, 2021, riot, when a violent mob of Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol and forced lawmakers to flee their chambers for safety. Trump railed against the Jan. Most of those witnesses have complied with the committee's requests. 6 probe in a flurry of angry statements and posts on his social media platform Truth Social later Thursday. The House select committee investigating the Jan. - The House select committee investigating the Jan.

The committee's chairman said it has "left no doubt, none, that Donald Trump led an effort to upend American democracy that directly resulted in the ...

In her final remarks before the vote on the subpoena to Trump, Cheney said the committee has "sufficient information" to answer questions about the Jan. Thompson noted the gravity of the decision to subpoena Trump, calling it "a serious and extraordinary action" that warranted a vote in public view. While delivering an opening statement at the start of the hearing, he noted it was a formal committee business meeting, allowing members to "potentially hold a committee vote on further investigative action based upon that evidence." "He tried to take away the voice of the American people in choosing their president and replace the will of the voters with his will to remain in power. Liz Cheney, the committee's vice chair, offered the resolution that the committee direct the chairman to issue the subpoena to Trump for documents and testimony in connection with the Jan. "The vast weight of evidence presented so far has shown us that the central cause of Jan. And whatever is underway to ensure his accountability under the law, this committee will demand a full accounting to the American people of the events of January 6th." Because the Committee is a total 'BUST' that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly — A laughing stock all over the World?" "We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. He is required to answer to the millions of Americans whose votes he wanted to throw out as part of his scheme to remain in power. [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-committee-plans-vote-subpoena-trump-sources-say-rcna52146) was first to report the news of the committee's plans to vote on subpoenaing Trump. "Thanks to the tireless work of our members and investigators, we have left no doubt, none, that Donald Trump led an effort to upend American democracy that directly resulted in the violence of Jan.

Donald Trump, in the words of Vice Chair Liz Cheney, had a “premeditated plan to declare the election was fraudulent and stolen before Election Day”; he knew he ...

And that certainty — along with the blatant refusal of millions to accept that reality — defines the limits of what the January 6 committee can accomplish.” For all of the legal landmines in Trump’s path — breaking Georgia’s laws on election interference, a possible contempt citation if he refuses to comply with today’s subpoena — the Mar-a-Lago case remains the most damaging to Trump, especially considering that at different times, he has more or less acknowledged breaking one or more of the laws regarding federal documents. Such an argument, no doubt, will be infuriating to those who have seen in these hearings a powerful case that the former president deliberately sought to sabotage the last election and to hold power by any means necessary. It was essentially two-and-a-half hours of leadup to the final moment of the Jan. Donald Trump, in the words of Vice Chair Liz Cheney, had a “premeditated plan to declare the election was fraudulent and stolen before Election Day”; he knew he had lost and fed his base endless lies about it; he welcomed a siege of the Capitol and did nothing to stop it. The unsigned order involved a relatively narrow dispute, but the lack of any dissents suggests that the court may not give Trump the protection he will seek from the Justice Department, should it end up indicting Trump for violating one or more federal laws.

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol voted on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald J. Trump as it ...

Cheney, who has arguably been the driving force behind the committee and recently lost a bid to keep her seat in a primary against a Trump-backed challenger, closed the hearing by suggesting that the panel had evidence to make a criminal referral of Mr. Trump and key members of his security detail knew on the day of the attack that many people in the crowd that had gathered to hear him speak in Washington were carrying weapons and were possibly dangerous, the committee said. The panel presented more evidence that Mr. The panel plans to continue investigating the Secret Service’s role in Jan. Trump to ask his supporters to leave the Capitol, where Mr. Fitton, who offered the advice days before the election, indicated in a text message presented by the panel that he had discussed the idea with Mr. “Why don’t you get the president to tell them to leave the Capitol, Mr. Trump stubbornly ignored the facts, the committee said, and aggressively pressured state officials, strong-armed Justice Department leaders and sought to create fake slates of electors in states that had been won by Joseph R. Trump, enraged and embarrassed that he had lost the election and unwilling to accept that fact, sought to join the crowd he had summoned to Washington on Jan. The footage offered a glimpse of the shock and disbelief that gripped them as they urgently phoned governors and top national security officials in efforts to summon the National Guard or get Mr. The former president publicly attacked the committee, but has been telling aides privately that he favors testifying before the panel as long as he gets to do so live, according to a person familiar with his discussions. Trump as it presented a sweeping summation of its case placing him at the center of a calculated, multipart effort to overturn the 2020 election, beginning even before Election Day.

The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump, ...

The full House is not scheduled to convene until after the midterms. 6 committee is expected to wrap up this year, and Republicans are expected to dissolve it in January if they win control of the House in the Nov. Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, faces up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $200,000 after being found guilty of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the Jan. He already faces civil and criminal charges in New York regarding his business activities, federal and state investigations regarding the 2020 election, and a federal criminal investigation over his handling of government documents. He is due to be sentenced on Oct. WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The congressional committee investigating the Jan.

The Justice Department hasn't charged the former President, nor anyone else in its investigation over the Capitol insurrection. The House select committee ...

The subpoena could also give the bipartisan committee some cover from pro-Trump Republicans who claim that it is a politicized attempt to impugn Trump that has not allowed cross-examination of witnesses. And it is not unusual for investigators to build a case before approaching the most prominent potential target of a probe. This is a question about accountability to the American people. “The need for this committee to hear from Donald Trump goes beyond our fact-finding. On the face of it, this development is troubling since it could suggest a pattern of deception that plays into a possible obstruction of justice charge. Trump has also blasted the DOJ’s investigation into classified documents unearthed during the FBI search of his residence at Mar-a-Lago as a witch hunt and political persecution. Because the Committee is a total ‘BUST,’” Trump wrote. It also featured almost pitiful accounts of the ex-President’s desperate attempts to avoid publicly admitting he was a loser in 2020 and made a case that his full comprehension of his defeat made his subsequent actions even more heinous. Short had been compelled to testify to the grand jury for the second time, according to a person familiar with the matter, CNN’s Pamela Brown reported. No dissents were noted, including from conservative justices Trump elevated to the bench and whom he often seems to believe owe him a debt of loyalty. The FBI also has surveillance footage showing a staffer moving the boxes. While television stations beamed blanket coverage of the committee hearing, more news broke that hinted at further grave legal problems the ex-President could face from another Justice Department investigation – also into January 6.

The congressional committee investigating the Capitol riot moved Thursday to force a showdown with Donald Trump, voting to subpoena the former president to ...

Even if a decision comes before the end of the year, it could be appealed and ultimately got to the US Supreme Court, adding months or even years to the litigation. David Rosenberg College of Law and former attorney-adviser in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Because the Committee is a total ‘BUST’ that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly - A laughing stock all over the World?” And if Republicans take control of the House in the midterm elections next month, GOP leaders are expected to end the committee’s work, likely making any subpoena fight moot. If Trump challenges the subpoena in court, or if the committee sues to enforce it, the legal fight could take years by raising largely untested questions about immunity for presidents in and out of office. It will not result in any testimony from the former president.”

Former President Donald Trump remained noncommittal on whether or not he'll comply with the House January 6 Committee's subpoena for his testimony Friday ...

[subpoena Trump](https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-lawmakers-subpoena-trump-in-final-hearing/?sh=416e3c2a3d14) Thursday after months of hearings that laid out the president’s legal culpability in the January 6 attack and in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. 6 Carries Risk of Legal Quagmire](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-14/subpoena-of-trump-over-jan-6-carries-risk-of-legal-quagmire?sref=LfZwdw4Z) (Bloomberg) 6 hearing shows Trump knew he lost — even while claiming otherwise](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/14/trump-knew-he-lost-jan-6/) (Washington Post) [Subpoena of Trump Over Jan. 6 Committee: Lawmakers Subpoena Trump In Final Hearing](https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-lawmakers-subpoena-trump-in-final-hearing/?sh=416e3c2a3d14) (Forbes) [Jan. Trump “knew he had lost the election, but he made the deliberate choice to ignore the courts, to ignore the Justice Department, to ignore his campaign leadership, to ignore senior advisers, and to pursue a completely unlawful effort to overturn the election,” Rep. The House January 6 Committee must dissolve by December 31, when this congressional term expires, though lawmakers would likely want to depose Trump even sooner so they could include his testimony in the final report the committee will issue. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), in which he asserted false claims about fraud in the 2020 election and “express[ed] our anger, disappointment, and complaint” that the committee was not investigating the purported fraud. In the committee’s hearing on Thursday, lawmakers presented evidence alleging Trump and his allies’ plan to overturn the election results was premeditated and that Trump knew he had lost the election, allegedly telling then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows after the Supreme Court [struck down](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/12/11/supreme-court-rejects-trump-backed-texas-lawsuit-trying-to-overturn-election/) a post-election challenge, “I don’t want people to know that we lost.” The committee’s evidence “has shown us that the central cause of January 6 was one man, Donald Trump, who many others followed,” Rep. If he doesn’t—as is likely to be the case, given his opposition to the committee’s work—it means lawmakers are overwhelmingly unlikely to hear from him, given that any legal battle over the subpoena would likely take months to resolve. “His intent was plain: ignore the rule of law and stay in power.” [expected](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/13/us/jan-6-hearing-trump#trump-subpoena-jan-6-committee) not to comply with the subpoena, the ex-president did share a Fox News [report](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-loves-the-idea-of-testifying-before-jan-6-committee-source-says-as-trump-slams-investigation) on Truth Social in which a source close to the former president said Trump “loves the idea of testifying” and if he testified, he would "talk about how corrupt the election was, how corrupt the committee was.” [approved](https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-lawmakers-subpoena-trump-in-final-hearing/?sh=416e3c2a3d14) Thursday in a 9-0 vote during the committee’s public televised hearing.

The committee voted Thursday to subpoena Trump, seeking his sworn testimony. WASHINGTON – Donald Trump sent a 14-page memo to the House committee investigating ...

[deploy thousands of troops to the Capitol](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/02/pentagon-wiped-phones-top-officials/10218518002/)on Jan. [testimony at the hearing from Trump’s own campaign aides](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/10/13/january-6-committee-hearing-live-updates/10441093002/) such as campaign manager Bill Stepien and his own administration officials including former Attorney General Bill Barr, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, who testified there was no widespread fraud and he lost the election. The committee voted Thursday to subpoena Trump for sworn testimony and documents. ](https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2022/07/18/jan-6-hearing-witnesses/10047729002/) In Friday's memo, Trump railed against investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, his two impeachments while president and the committee’s inquiry. [Donald Trump sent a 14-page memo](https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/27/27b7896f-01c5-4609-93c7-742e5cb22e96/830-am-final-january-6th-committee-letter14446.pdf?utm_medium=email_hf&utm_source=ncl__&utm_campaign=20221014___sa&utm_content=__6167&_nlid=fGCD7XzbpG&_nhids=5WMDFe5P) to the House committee investigating the Capitol attack on Jan. [committee gathered sworn testimony from lawmakers and election officials](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/21/jan-6-hearings-takeaways-day-4/7663054001/)in those states who investigated the complaints and found no widespread fraud. [lost at the Supreme Court](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/19/supreme-court-donald-trump-documents-jan-6-national-archives/9173448002/). House Republicans refused to nominate members to the committee, yet House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., [committee voted unanimously to subpoena Trump](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/10/13/jan-6-commitee-trump-subpoena/10488685002/)for testimony and documents. The committee played video of congressional leaders pleading for hours for the Defense Department to send National Guard reinforcements as rioters rampaged through the building. [appointed seven Democrats and two Republicans](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/08/january-6-house-committee-members-list/7552965001/).

The RINOs in the State Senate confirmed this also in their report analyzing the 2020 Election, and said a 'large volume' of ballots were delivered to the TCF ...

He knows, too, that producing page after page of “election fraud” will be just as effective as producing page after page of actual evidence: The sense of wrongdoing is all he needs, just as a sense that covering windows was wrong is good enough as a trigger. And he knows that people who work for The Washington Post will angrily print it out and scribble on it and reinforce to the reality-adjacent that his arguments are reality-defiant. The RINOs in the State Senate confirmed this also in their report analyzing the 2020 Election, and said a ‘large volume’ of ballots were delivered to the TCF Center with no chain of custody. The error was caught (thanks mostly to Antrim being reliably red and the initial count showing Trump losing), and accurate totals were announced in short order. DePerno’s efforts and can confidently conclude they are demonstrably false and based on misleading information and illogical conclusions.” In fact, DePerno is now the subject of Here’s the relevant section of their analysis related to these votes, with the “large volume” reference highlighted. Regardless, there’s no evidence — and, in fact, no reason to think — that this in anyway affected the actual vote count. Consider his list of claims about Michigan, a swing state mostly in the sense that he barely won it in 2016 and lost it handily four years later. [response](https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/27/27b7896f-01c5-4609-93c7-742e5cb22e96/830-am-final-january-6th-committee-letter14446.pdf?utm_medium=email_hf&utm_source=ncl__&utm_campaign=20221014___sa&utm_content=__6167&_nlid=test123&_nhids=TEST) to the imminent subpoena from the House select committee investigating the [Jan. [an article from 708 days ago](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/technology/michigan-election-ballot-counting.html) explaining why the windows were covered and “poll watchers” (often simply protesters) were barred from entering. What’s more, there were [plenty of allies of Trump inside](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/10/fact-check-videos-crowd-locked-out-detroit-center-lack-context/6195038002/); his complaint conflates prohibition of more supporters from entering with prohibition of all supporters. “These people have had their lives ruined as your Committee sits back and basks in the glow” — so mixed a metaphor that it actually causes you to stop and consider it.

In a letter addressed to committee chairman Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the former President doubles down on fraudulent claims that the 2020 ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a member of the panel, about the interest the subpoena has generated, ...

And those of us who aspire and attain to public office are nothing but the servants of the people. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. So his being a former president does not entitle him to skip out on the law. FADEL: Now, so much about this moment is unprecedented or feels unprecedented - the attack on the Capitol and many things that have come after. All you have to do is meet the subpoena, and then you can get out of jail. RASKIN: Well, of course, that's going to be up to him, although we've talked to more than a thousand people now, and the vast majority of people that we've contacted or subpoenaed have recognized that this is both a legal duty and also a civic opportunity. So, you know, I'm hopeful that - you know, we don't think this is just some kind of poetic exercise. RASKIN: And I just want everybody to focus for a moment, at least, on what you would do, wherever you are, if you had information about this attack. Yesterday's hearing summed up a year-and-a-half-long investigation that found former President Trump pushed the big lie that the election was stolen, even though he knew he lost, that he pressured state officials and his own vice president to overturn the results and that he summoned a violent mob to the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power. And many people have told us that they felt it's their patriotic obligation to come forward, to share whatever knowledge they have with the committee as we investigate this worst mass violent domestic assault on Congress in our history. FADEL: That's committee chair Bennie Thompson of Mississippi during a hearing that closed with the panel unanimously voting to subpoena the former president's testimony and documents. BENNIE THOMPSON: This is a question about accountability to the American people.

In a rambling, 14-page restatement of false claims and conspiracy theories, the former president did not indicate whether he would testify before the House ...

Trump would comply but that he believed the panel had compiled a comprehensive case of the events of Jan. Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, told reporters on Thursday that he hoped Mr. The former president has indicated privately to aides that he would be willing to testify to the House panel but would like to do so live, according to a person close to him, a prospect that would prevent video of him from being clipped or edited in a manner he dislikes. The letter he released on Friday — a conspiracy theory-filled rehash of his many grievances and false assertions — underscored the risks for the committee of giving Mr. In a 14-page missive that did not address whether he would comply with the subpoena, Mr. 6 assault with a lengthy, rambling letter that attacked the panel’s work, reiterated false claims of widespread voting fraud and presaged a potentially bruising battle over whether he would be compelled to testify about his role in the riot and his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

Trump issued a letter to select committee Chairman Bennie Thompson in which he criticized the committee's work and reiterated previous claims of fraud in ...

Trump claimed that the committee “willfully ignored” that he allegedly recommended and authorized thousands of troops to be deployed to the Capitol in the days before Jan. 6 attack, arguing that he “did [his] job long ahead schedule” and that the “troops were ready to go.” Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) for the hours-long delay in the deployment of the National Guard to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 investigation a “Charade and Witch Hunt.” Trump then urged Thompson and other committee members to examine the “massive Election Fraud” that Trump insists took place during the 2020 presidential election. Trump also defended his actions leading up to and during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.