Courts and Judicial Oversight

Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg unsealed a scathing opinion quashing DOJ grand jury subpoenas to the Federal Reserve Board seeking records tied to Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s Senate testimony about a $2.5 billion Fed building renovation, finding the government offered "no evidence whatsoever" he committed a crime and that the subpoenas' dominant purpose was to harass and pressure Powell to yield to the President or resign. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro vowed to appeal and blasted Boasberg as an "activist judge," Sen. Thom Tillis called the probe "weak and frivolous" and threatened to block Kevin Warsh’s confirmation, and President Trump demanded Boasberg be removed from Trump‑related cases and face disciplinary action.