By Salvador Rizzo, washingtonpost.com, 7-23-26
The Justice Department agreed to withdraw subpoenas it issued to New York Times reporters after a federal judge sharply questioned the government’s demand that they testify before a grand jury about their reporting on security concerns with President Donald Trump’s new Air Force One jet.
U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, who held a hearing July 23 on the Times’s motion to quash the subpoenas, said the news organization had raised “profound First Amendment and free press issues.”
“Seems like you’ve got two options – either we can quash the subpoenas or you can withdraw the subpoenas,” Subramanian told a prosecutor during the hearing. » Read More