A federal judge has quashed the Justice Department’s subpoenas directed at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. In a scathing 27-page opinion , Judge James Boasberg said Friday that the government has produced “essentially zero evidence” to substantiate its criminal case against Powell. “A mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning,” Boasberg wrote. “On the other side of the scale,