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The Republican-led House asked a federal court on Monday to enforce a subpoena against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., demanding that he produce records on the bungled gun-tracking investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious.
They also said lawyers for the House would soon file a lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena for internal Justice Department e-mails from 2011, stemming from a House vote in June to hold Mr. Holder in contempt of Congress.
In 1982, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit refused to enforce a subpoena issued by a group of states that were suing several oil companies on antitrust charges.
By going to the court and asking it to enforce a subpoena - or better, waiting for public-interest groups to do so, as with Vice President Dick Cheney's energy advisory commission - Congress avoids most of these costs.
A copy of the filing, which was provided to The New York Times, shows that city officials asked a judge in September to enforce a subpoena previously issued to one manufacturer of prescription opioids, the Janssen Pharmaceuticals unit of Johnson & Johnson.
Where information about a possible crime is apparent to anyone -- for instance, when wounds are readily visible on a patient's face, or when a packet of drugs falls from a patient's sock -- prosecutors may enforce a subpoena for records, the court noted in its unanimous decision.
Just the process of enforcing a subpoena can be time-consuming, even if the government is likely to win.
The meeting came a day after a federal judge in Brooklyn ordered Captain Gansas to appear, enforcing a subpoena from the National Transportation Safety Board that he had ignored up to that point.
While the ruling is the first in which a court has agreed to enforce a Congressional subpoena against the White House, Judge Bates called his 93-page decision "very limited" and emphasized that he would rather see the dispute resolved through political negotiations.
Mueller would surely go to court to enforce an ignored subpoena, Giuliani said in a recent interview with HuffPost.
The Securities and Exchange Commission motioned a federal judge to enforce an Oct. 31 subpoena to which Fastow has yet to respond.
