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| WASHINGTON — House Republicans issued a subpoena on Thursday to a former Manhattan prosecutor who investigated former President Donald J. Trump, moving quickly after Mr. Trump’s arraignment this week to dissect the active criminal case against him and scrutinize the office pursuing it. | WASHINGTON — House Republicans issued a subpoena on Thursday to a former Manhattan prosecutor who investigated former President Donald J. Trump, moving quickly after Mr. Trump’s arraignment this week to dissect the active criminal case against him and scrutinize the office pursuing it. |
| Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio and the Judiciary Committee chairman, sent the order to compel a deposition from Mark F. Pomerantz, a former New York County special assistant district attorney, on April 20. The move was an escalation of the G.O.P.’s bid to use its power in Congress to try to protect Mr. Trump, the first president or former president to be indicted in a criminal case, as he pushes forward with another run for the White House. | Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio and the Judiciary Committee chairman, sent the order to compel a deposition from Mark F. Pomerantz, a former New York County special assistant district attorney, on April 20. The move was an escalation of the G.O.P.’s bid to use its power in Congress to try to protect Mr. Trump, the first president or former president to be indicted in a criminal case, as he pushes forward with another run for the White House. |
| Mr. Pomerantz had led the investigation into Mr. Trump’s finances before resigning in protest in February after Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, appeared reluctant to move forward with a case against Mr. Trump. | Mr. Pomerantz had led the investigation into Mr. Trump’s finances before resigning in protest in February after Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, appeared reluctant to move forward with a case against Mr. Trump. |
| While Republicans have promised to scrutinize the work of Mr. Bragg, who filed criminal charges against Mr. Trump on Tuesday, they have held off for now in issuing him a subpoena, wrestling privately with how to move forward amid legal and institutional concerns about overreach and how to enforce a subpoena in court. | While Republicans have promised to scrutinize the work of Mr. Bragg, who filed criminal charges against Mr. Trump on Tuesday, they have held off for now in issuing him a subpoena, wrestling privately with how to move forward amid legal and institutional concerns about overreach and how to enforce a subpoena in court. |
| Republicans argue that Mr. Pomerantz’s public criticism of Mr. Bragg and the fact that he wrote a memoir that disclosed details and deliberations about the investigation strengthen their case for why he should testify. | |
| Mr. Pomerantz did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But he previously told the Judiciary Committee he would not be providing documents or testimony to the panel, citing instructions from the district attorney’s office. |