Today DA Alvin Bragg has sued to stop subpoenas issued by the House judiciary committee over his phony indictment of Trump.
Bragg claims the inquiry is a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack.”
Bragg sued Jordan on Tuesday, seeking to block a House Judiciary Committee inquiry into hush money payments tied to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Bragg claimed House oversight subpoenas are a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack.”
After weeks of letters back and forth between House GOP chairmen and Bragg, the Manhattan DA finally sued to block congressional oversight, asserting lawmakers have neither authority nor legislative purposes in getting involved.
“Congress lacks any valid legislative purpose to engage in a free-ranging campaign of harassment in retaliation for the District Attorney’s investigation and prosecution of Mr. Trump under the laws of New York,” Tuesday’s lawsuit claimed, rejecting the constitutional authority of Congress “to oversee, let alone disrupt, ongoing state law criminal matters.”
Rep. Jim Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, hit back against this lawsuit on Twitter:
First, they indict a president for no crime.
Then, they sue to block congressional oversight when we ask questions about the federal funds they say they used to do it.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) April 11, 2023
I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find a lawless DA who thinks he’s above the law.
But seriously, that’s exactly what this amounts to and the oversight is not intimidation nor an attack. It’s accountability.
The moment they used federal funds to indict Trump was the moment they got Jim Jordan and his judiciary committee involved.