Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg filed a lawsuit on behalf of the seven state workers Thursday challenging the subpoenas. He claims the committee has no jurisdiction to issue subpoenas in the investigation and questions whether the investigation's overseeing body, the Legislative Council, had the authority to begin a probe.

Colberg said in a news conference Friday that he never directed anybody to ignore subpoenas, but advised the seven that they had two options: Show up and testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee or don't and join the lawsuit.

"If they were a normal subpoena, we do not believe they would be optional," Colberg said.