Synonyms for subpoena
səˈpi nə, səb-sub·poe·na

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1. subpoena, subpoena ad testificandumverb

   a writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding; disobedience may be punishable as a contempt of court

   Synonyms:
   subpoena ad testificandum

2. subpoenaverb

   serve or summon with a subpoena

   "The witness and her records were subpoenaed"

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1. List of paraphrases for "subpoena":

   summons, citation, assignment, summoning, call-up

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1. Gerry Connolly:

   I would support the issuance of a subpoena, however reluctantly, this is not a reluctant witness, at least up until now, and the reason for his reluctance isn't our committee, it is the client he fears puts his family at risk.

2. Alabama Sen. Doug Jones:

   The Senate needs to hear from John Bolton, the American people deserve to hear from John Bolton. If we can't get John Bolton let's get a subpoena for the book !

3. Harry Daniels:

   Justice delayed will not be justice denied, now that we have filed a federal lawsuit, let me be very clear in saying that I and this team have compulsory authority, federal subpoena authority, to get all the videos, all the tapes, all the recordings, all the records. And no district attorney, no county administrator and no state court can stop us from doing that because federal law trumps state law.

4. Jerrold Nadler:

   The very next step, either tomorrow or Friday, is we're going into court to ask for the grand jury material and to enforce the subpoena against Mr. McGahn, that's particularly important because the excuses ... that the White House gives for McGahn not testifying ... are the same excuses for all the other fact witnesses, and if we break that, we'll break the logjam.

5. Jay Sekulow:

   We were prepared from the outset in the event of a subpoena to challenge it, we felt confident the law was clearly on our side.