Judge Juan Merchan rejected Donald Trump’s request to subpoena a former prosecutor in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office. The former president’s lawyers had asked the court for testimony and documents from former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who called the hush money investigation a “zombie” case in his book and questioned whether charges were warranted, but Mercan rejected the request on a number of grounds. “The Court finds that the request runs afoul of [a New York state law protecting an attorney’s work product],” Merchan wrote in his ruling. “In fact, Defendant acknowledges th…