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Can a state AG not subpoena a federal agency?

• dragonwriter 9y ago
  Correct, because of federal supremacy. The state and federal governments are “separate sovereignties”, but not co-equal ones.
• AGSchneiderman 9y ago
  The assistance we’ve requested should not require a subpoena. State and federal agencies cooperate all the time, especially when they are engaged in law enforcement investigations into illegal conduct. The FCC has worked with my office in the past under such circumstances, and there is no good reason for them not to work with us here. Regardless of any legal constraints that may exist on a state law enforcement office’s ability to compel a federal agency to cooperate in an investigation, cooperation always should be -- and usually is -- provided voluntarily.