{"id":68922,"date":"2026-03-13T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/judge-blocks-justice-department-from-subpoenaing-fed-chair-jerome-powell\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:57:07","slug":"judge-blocks-justice-department-from-subpoenaing-fed-chair-jerome-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/judge-blocks-justice-department-from-subpoenaing-fed-chair-jerome-powell\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge blocks justice department from subpoenaing Fed chair Jerome Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump DoJ\u2019s investigation was purportedly about the management of the central bank\u2019s renovation<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge on Friday blocked the justice department from serving subpoenas to Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell in an inquiry purported to be about the management of the central bank\u2019s renovation.<\/p>\n<p>Powell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/jan\/11\/justice-department-opens-investigation-into-federal-reserve-as-trump-ramps-up-campaign-against-central-bank\">disclosed<\/a> the surprise investigation on 11 January, and described the move as a threat to Fed independence and part of the Trump administration\u2019s attempts to pressure the Fed to cut rates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/13\/justice-department-subpoeana-jerome-powell\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump DoJ\u2019s investigation was purportedly about the management of the central bank\u2019s renovation A federal judge on Friday blocked the justice department from serving subpoenas to Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell in an inquiry purported to be about the management of the central bank\u2019s renovation. Powell disclosed the surprise investigation on 11 January, and described &#8230; <a title=\"Judge blocks justice department from subpoenaing Fed chair Jerome Powell\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/judge-blocks-justice-department-from-subpoenaing-fed-chair-jerome-powell\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Judge blocks justice department from subpoenaing Fed chair Jerome Powell\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}