---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 356"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "356"
heading: "Subpoena power"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/356"
units:
  - "Part I — Organization of Courts"
  - "Chapter 16 — Complaints Against Judges and Judicial Discipline"
---

# §356. Subpoena power

- (a) **Judicial Councils and Special Committees.—** In conducting any investigation under this chapter, the judicial council, or a special committee appointed under [section 353](/usc/28/353.md), shall have full subpoena powers as provided in [section 332(d)](/usc/28/332.md?p=d).
- (b) **Judicial Conference and Standing Committees.—** In conducting any investigation under this chapter, the Judicial Conference, or a standing committee appointed by the Chief Justice under [section 331](/usc/28/331.md), shall have full subpoena powers as provided in that section.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title I, § 11042(a), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1852.)