{"id":569825,"date":"2023-04-11T21:55:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T18:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bragg-sues-jim-jordan-over-campaign-to-intimidate-and-attack\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T21:55:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T18:55:59","slug":"bragg-sues-jim-jordan-over-campaign-to-intimidate-and-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bragg-sues-jim-jordan-over-campaign-to-intimidate-and-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bragg sues Jim Jordan over \u2018campaign to intimidate and attack\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/jordanjim_030123gn02_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) sued House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) Tuesday, calling his investigation into Bragg\u2019s prosecution of former President Trump a \u201ctransparent campaign to intimidate and attack\u201d his office\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>The suit, filed in federal court in New York, is the most aggressive pushback yet from Bragg in response to Jordan, who in recent days subpoenaed a former prosecutor who worked on the Trump investigation and last week asked another employee to turn over personal emails about his hiring process.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cCongress has no power to supervise state criminal prosecutions. Nor does Congress have the power to serve subpoenas \u2018for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to punish those investigated,\u2019\u201d Bragg\u2019s office writes in the suit, pointing to a case initiated by Trump that ultimately limited Congress\u2019s subpoena power.<\/p>\n<p>Bragg has also resisted efforts from Jordan to secure his testimony, arguing in prior letters that Jordan\u2019s requests would violate the rights of those involved in the process, including Trump himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe charges the District Attorney filed against Mr. Trump were <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>roved by citizens of New York,\u201d the suit states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than allowing the criminal process to proceed in the ordinary course, Chairman Jordan and the Committee are participating in a campaign of intimidation, retaliation, and obstruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jordan started his own review of Bragg\u2019s investigation just days after Trump predicted he would be arrested in connection with the probe and called on his supporters to protest.<\/p>\n<p>Bragg filed an indictment of Trump last week, charging him with 34 felony counts of misclassification of business records, a charge elevated due to alleged efforts to conceal the payments to aid Trump\u2019s 2016 election prospects.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Bragg has yet to be subpoenaed by Jordan. But Jordan did subpoena Mark Pomerantz, who resigned from the Trump investigation about a year ago over disagreements with Bragg over the Trump case. <\/p>\n<p>In a resignation letter published by the New York Times, Pomerantz wrote that Bragg\u2019s reluctance to pursue charges against Trump was \u201cmisguided and completely contrary to the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suit seeks an injunction to block the subpoena of Pomerantz as well as any future subpoena issued to Bragg or others in his office.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>It also notes that any subpoena would violate laws surrounding grand jury secrecy and privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan fired back on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> shortly after the suit was filed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, they indict a president for no crime,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThen, they sue to block congressional oversight when we ask questions about the federal funds they say they used to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The suit spends also considerable time analyzing whether Jordan\u2019s work could serve a legitimate legislative purpose \u2013 one of the requirements for backing such a subpoena.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan has argued his panel must be able to review the federal funding Bragg\u2019s office receives. The office used $5,000 in federal funding to investigate Trump prior to Bragg\u2019s arrival, but his office says none has been used since he took the post in January of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan has also argued in his subpoena to Pomerantz his review is needed to \u201cinform the consideration of potential legislative reforms that would, if enacted, insulate current and former Presidents from such politically motivated state and local prosecutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In the suit, Bragg dismissed that augment and noted that it is up to Trump\u2019s legal team to raise in court the issue of whether his prosecution was improperly motivated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSubpoenaing a former line prosecutor to talk about an ongoing criminal prosecution and investigation is no less of an affront to state sovereignty than subpoenaing the District Attorney himself. Chairman Jordan claims he is seeking to conduct \u2018oversight.\u2019 But he has no power under the Constitution to oversee state and local criminal matters,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy definition, then, he has no legitimate legislative purpose for issuing this subpoena.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The suit also reviews numerous social media posts by Trump in relation to the probe, including one in which the former president posted a picture of himself holding a baseball bat side-by-side with a photo of Bragg. The filing notes the post was followed by death threats to Bragg and \u201ca package containing suspicious white powder with a note making a specific death threat against him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bragg filed his lawsuit one day after the House Judiciary Committee, led by Jordan, announced that it will hold a hearing in Manhattan next week on violent crime in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The panel targeted Bragg in its advisory, writing that the hearing \u2014 titled \u201cVictims of Violent Crime in Manhattan\u201d \u2014 will examine how Bragg\u2019s \u201cpro-crime, anti-victim policies have led to an increase in violent crime and a dangerous community for New York City residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In an interview with Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>\u2019 Sean Hannity Monday night, Jordan said the committee will be talking to victims of crime in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re coming up there to talk to the victims, the people who\u2019ve been impacted by this crazy, left-wing ideology that says we\u2019re not gonna put bad guys, people who do harmful things to other Americans, we\u2019re not gonna put them in jail and then bad things happen,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna talk to those families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that the Judiciary Committee is planning to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> to other cities to look into crime. He said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), the chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, \u201cwants to go to other cities and do this same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it is that critical because Alvin Bragg as you know is going after President Trump when you have all kinds of things happening in his town that are harmful to families who live there,\u201d Jordan added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mychael Schnell contributed.<\/em> <em>Updated: 3:32 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media 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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