There’s been a lot of coverage this afternoon and evening about a subpoena that’s been bouncing around in federal court since at least September, all done under seal. Someone got a subpoena from Mueller’s grand jury and has apparently been fighting it. It was bumped up to an appeals court, sent back down, and today was another hearing. It has all been handled very quietly and very rapidly, which has led most observers to believe that it is someone very important that was subpoenaed. Reporters were at the courthouse since early this morning, hoping to catch a glimpse of who it might be, or at least their lawyer(s), in order to find out who it is.
But then in the middle of the day, all reporters were ordered off the entire floor where the hearing was supposed to take place. Court officers followed that up by going through the stairwells and making sure no reporters were there. Extraordinary measures, adding to the extraordinary circumstances surrounding this subpoena.
So the question is— who got the subpoena? No reporter I’ve heard has been willing to even conjecture on air about a name, although all say there is a lot of speculation about who it might be. So let’s speculate along, shall we?
I’ll go first. Pence.