{"id":566978,"date":"2023-03-22T23:03:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/schumer-declines-to-state-confidence-in-manhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T23:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:03:56","slug":"schumer-declines-to-state-confidence-in-manhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/schumer-declines-to-state-confidence-in-manhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg\/","title":{"rendered":"#Schumer declines to state confidence in Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35efd82940f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35efd82940f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/schumer-declines-to-state-confidence-in-manhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg\/#Schumer_declines_to_state_confidence_in_Manhattan_district_attorney_Alvin_Bragg\" >Schumer declines to state confidence in Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Schumer_declines_to_state_confidence_in_Manhattan_district_attorney_Alvin_Bragg\"><\/span>Schumer declines to state confidence in Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/schumerchuck_031523ag04_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday declined to say whether he has confidence in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) ahead of an expected indictment of former President Trump. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he had confidence in Bragg, Schumer answered: \u201cLook, the bottom line, is \u2014 as I said \u2014 it\u2019s premature to comment on what\u2019s h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening and we\u2019ll have to wait and see what he does.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Schumer is keeping his distance from speculation about whether Bragg will indict Trump for a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump\u2019s former fixer, Michael Cohen, has pleaded guilty to a charge connected to the payment but other prosecutors have declined to pursue charges against Trump himself. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who faces a tough reelection in 2024, warned that bringing charges against Trump may backfire on Democrats by making it look they\u2019re using the courts to hurt political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s many reasons not to support Donald Trump. There\u2019s many reasons why Donald Trump should not be president again of the United States but you should not allow the court system to be viewed as a political pawn,\u201d Manchin told reporters Tuesday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it would basically have the reverse effect as what some people would think, not for the good,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republicans meanwhile, have trained their fire on Bragg, who has come under criticism for telling prosecutors in his office that incarceration should be a \u201cmatter of last resort\u201d and they should only seek prison sentences for serious crimes such as murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Crime Research Prevention Center found that prosecutors have been less like to prosecute felonies and less likely to pursue jail sentences for misdemeanors under Bragg. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>And prosecutors under Bragg have won a lower percentage of serious felony cases compared to his predecessor, former District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers have seized on what they called Bragg\u2019s \u201csoft-on-crime\u201d policies to make the argument that his prosecution of Trump is politically motivated. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuestions are being asked by a lot of our members and for that matter people all across the country about the prioritization of this DA of this issue over what are very current and real law-enforcement issues in their city,\u201d Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) told reporters Wednesday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has slammed Bragg\u2019s case as \u201clegally frivolous\u201d and a \u201ctransparently political indictment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz says Bragg\u2019s case, which is thought to revolve around a state law related to falsifying business records, is weak and convoluted because it is ordinarily a misdemeanor and has already passed the statute of limitations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bumping it up to a felony would require connecting it to a campaign finance violation, which Cruz notes which federal prosecutors have never pursued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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