Engoron allows Trump to sub­poe­na lawyer who ‘boast­ed’ of talk with civ­il fraud judge

Don­ald Trump can move for­ward with sub­poe­naing a lawyer who pub­licly claimed to have met with the judge who over­saw the for­mer president’s civ­il fraud tri­al, accord­ing to a court order.
Judge Arthur Engoron denied por­tions of Trump’s sub­poe­na but deter­mined that it was “not whol­ly with­out mer­it,” the judge wrote in the order, filed Tues­day.
Trump’s attor­neys had request­ed to issue a sub­poe­na for doc­u­ments to New York-based lawyer Adam Bai­ley after Bai­ley told a local NBC affil­i­ate that he pri­vate­ly spoke with Engoron about the case weeks before Engoron announced his ver­dict against Trump in it.
Bai­ley “boast­ed” to the media about the meet­ing, Engoron said, observ­ing that he had to allow some form of Trump’s sub­poe­na for that rea­son.
“Mr. Bai­ley …