Appeals court grants temporary delay in Manhattan D.A. effort to block ex-prosecutor's congressional testimony

Hours before an ex-prosecutor was scheduled to appear before a House committee investigating the Manhattan prosecution of former President Donald Trump, a federal appeals court issued a stay that will delay the testimony.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Wednesday evening after a federal judge rejected his attempt to block a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee to former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz.

The appeals court wrote Thursday that a three-judge panel will consider Bragg's appeal of a Wednesday ruling by Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil, in which she concluded that she has no standing to block the subpoena. The committee and its Republican chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, have aggressively confronted Bragg in the weeks since Trump was indicted in Manhattan.