{"id":568274,"date":"2023-03-31T17:22:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bragg-warns-gop-lawmakers-against-donald-trump-case-oversight\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T17:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T14:22:57","slug":"bragg-warns-gop-lawmakers-against-donald-trump-case-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bragg-warns-gop-lawmakers-against-donald-trump-case-oversight\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bragg warns GOP lawmakers against Donald Trump case oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/Alvin-Bragg-AP.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) warned Republican lawmakers on Friday that their efforts to conduct oversight into his investigation of former President Trump represents a \u201cdangerous usurpation\u201d by Congress that could impinge upon the former president\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>The response from Bragg\u2019s office comes the morning after a grand jury he empaneled to hear evidence voted to indict Trump in connection with efforts to hide a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels by couching them as legal payments.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>A trio of Republican House chairmen, led by House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), gave Bragg until Friday to comply with a demand to turn over documents related to his investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Bragg\u2019s office again rebuffed the chairmen in a second letter, noting that a jury found probable cause to initiate the charges for Trump and laying out his full rights in the upcoming trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat neither Mr. Trump nor Congress may do is interfere with the ordinary course of proceedings in New York State,\u201d Leslie Dubeck, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> counsel for Bragg\u2019s office, wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>The letter is the fourth in a back-and-forth between Bragg and the lawmakers, who demanded all the documents in the case as well as any communications Bragg\u2019s office has had about it.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP leaders contended the probe was politically motivated \u2014 a point Bragg has repeatedly contested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour second letter asserts that, by failing to provide it, the District Attorney somehow failed to dispute your baseless and inflammatory allegations that our investigation is politically motivated. That conclusion is misleading and meritless,\u201d Dubeck wrote.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe did not engage in a point-by-point rebuttal of your letter because our Office is legally constrained in how it publicly discusses pending criminal proceedings, as prosecutorial offices are across the country and as you well know. That secrecy is critical to protecting the privacy of the target of any criminal investigation as well as the integrity of the independent grand jury\u2019s proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bragg\u2019s office reiterated a willingness to meet but this time asked lawmakers to supply them with a list of questions and documents they could discuss \u201cwithout violating New York grand jury secrecy rules or interfering with the criminal case now before a court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter attacks another GOP argument seeking to justify their intervention, with the lawmakers in their original March 20 letter saying they were weighing \u201cpotential legislative reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Again, Bragg\u2019s office questioned the intent of GOP plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe doubt that Congress would have authority to place a single private citizen \u2014 including a former president or candidate for president \u2014 above the law or to grant him unique protections, such as removal to federal court, that are unavailable to every other criminal defendant,\u201d Dubeck wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if you were seriously considering such legislation and had the constitutional authority to enact it (which you do not), your request for information from the District Attorney and his former attorneys concerning an ongoing criminal probe is unnecessary and unjustified. Congress has many sources from which it could seek information on the wisdom of this legislation, including from former federal or state prosecutors not involved in this pending matter.\u201d<\/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. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The response from Bragg\u2019s office comes the morning after a grand jury he empaneled to hear evidence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":568275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/Alvin-Bragg-AP.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[123566,139252,134343,139529,4941,134661,90482,70289,134345],"class_list":["post-568274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alvin-bragg","tag-business-economy","tag-campaign","tag-defense-national-security","tag-donald-trump","tag-energy-environment","tag-house","tag-senate","tag-state-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}