The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election subversion case in Washington, DC,
denied the former president’s effort to subpoena records from the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
In addition, Chutkan noted that Trump’s requested subpoenas lacked specificity about certain information he wanted, comparing the request to a “fishing expedition.”
“The broad scope of the records that Defendant seeks, and his vague description of their potential relevance, resemble less ‘a good faith effort to obtain identified evidence’” than they do a “fishing expedition,” Chutkan wrote.