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The Associated Press had reported that earlier on Friday, the House Oversight Committee received the first round of files - which they had subpoenaed for - from the justice department.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

Texas legislators had subpoenaed Roberson to testify in October, a novel way to delay the scheduled execution of a man many people believe to be innocent.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2024

Yesterday, it focused on some 30,000 pages of Morens's emails from those personal accounts that it had subpoenaed.

From Science Magazine • May 23, 2024

The recounted false statements occur in an interview months after the grand jury subpoena was received and after de Oliveira is on video moving boxes of classified documents, which the FBI had subpoenaed and acquired.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2023

But when I spoke with Doug Jones, the attorney for the prosecution and a friend of mine, I discovered that Bobby Cherrys attorney had subpoenaed me to testify as a witness for the defense\ “What?”

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry