Daily Gotham's Bouldin takes a long, thoughtful ride on the abuse of power train:

"In short, this looks entirely too much like an abuse of power and of judicial process in the furtherance of strictly political goals. Of course, there may be perfectly reasonable justifications for the subpoena, reasons that outweigh the chilling effect.

We could learn about those reasons by means of an independent investigation. State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who has oversight of the District Attorneys, would be the right man to talk to about that."

The Albany's Project's Phillip Anderson calls the Bronx DA's tactics "absolutely outrageous" and echoes Bouldin's call for action.

Liz, too, is not buying Johnson's Bronx tale, questions the DA's abuse of power (and taxpayer funds)

Azi tags the DA's efforts as simply "bizarre"

Nationally, the Wall Street Journal and Volokh Conspiracy are questioning the actual power of Johnson's subpoena

Meanwhile, Gawker expresses their concern: that we're turning into the UK (go figure)