The Trump administration has asked the judge to reconsider the ruling to block the criminal investigation against Powell.

According to court documents released Monday, the Trump administration has asked a judge to reconsider a previous ruling that effectively blocked a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, Odaily, blocked several subpoenas issued by federal prosecutors in January in a ruling that was unsealed last Friday. These subpoenas sought information about cost overruns in the Fed headquarters renovation project and Powell's testimony to Congress last year regarding the project. The Justice Department urged the judge to reconsider his decision in a new court filing. Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia who is leading the investigation, and her team argued in the filing that the judge "applied the wrong standards of law" and "erred on several significant issues of fact." The motion was filed sealed last Thursday but was made public on Monday at the request of Pirro's office.