A federal judge on Wednesday declined to bar Congressional Republicans from questioning a former prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, granting them limited permission to scrutinize the investigation that led to criminal charges against Donald J. Trump.
The former prosecutor, Mark F. Pomerantz, worked for the district attorney’s office for about a year, leaving in early 2022, and later wrote a book about his experience on the Trump investigation. After the district attorney’s office unsealed charges against Mr. Trump this month, Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio and the Judiciary Committee chairman, subpoenaed Mr. Pomerantz.
The district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, then sued Mr. Jordan in federal court in Manhattan in an attempt to stop the interview of Mr. Pomerantz.
On Wednesday afternoon, the judge in the case, Mary Kay Vyskocil, said that congressional Republicans had a Constitutional right to question Mr. Pomerantz to inform their role as legislators, and declined to stop the questioning, scheduled for Thursday.
“It is not the role of the federal judiciary to dictate what legislation Congress may consider or how it should conduct its deliberations,” the judge wrote, adding. “Mr. Pomerantz must appear for the congressional deposition. No one is above the law.”
Mr. Bragg’s lawyer, Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., did not immediately comment on the order. In court on Wednesday afternoon, he indicated that he likely would appeal the ruling immediately.
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