A federal judge on Friday said he won’t reconsider his decision blocking Justice Department subpoenas of the Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome Powell. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of Washington’s federal trial court,

A federal judge on Friday refused to reconsider his decision blocking subpoenas tied to a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, dealing another setback to the Justice Department and setting up a likely appeal that could prolong the standoff.

A US district judge on Friday denied the Trump administration’s request to reconsider the legality of two subpoenas targeting the Federal Reserve, after he blocked them last month.

A federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., told a judge this month that his office didn’t have evidence of any crimes by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in a costly renovation of the central bank’s headquarters — despite subpoenas over the matter ...