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DOJ Drops Subpoenas on New York Times Reporters After Judge Pushes Back
The Trump Justice Department withdrew demands for journalists' phone records — including family members' — after a federal judge questioned why prosecutors hadn't tried less invasive steps first.
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- Three phone-records subpoenas. That is what the Trump Justice Department walked away from on July 23, 2026, after a federal judge in Manhattan spent over an hour pressing its lawyers on why they had not pursued less invasive steps before demanding the calling records of New York Times national-security journalists — and, in an unusual expansion, some of their spouses and parents. The withdrawal, reported by NBC, Reuters, PBS, CNBC, Ars Technica and Poynter within hours of the hearing, closed a two-week episode that press-freedom advocates had called an escalation in the administration's leak-hunting tactics .
