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Explainer: Congress no longer runs a jail, so just how powerful are its subpoenas?

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Explainer: Congress no longer runs a jail, so just how powerful are its subpoenas?“We’re fighting all the subpoenas,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday. In another display of his disregard for Washington norms, Trump is defying subpoenas issued by Democrats in the House of Representatives, who have launched numerous investigations of him, his businesses, family and administration. Here is how the congressional subpoena, contempt and enforcement process works.