And here we go…..
A Congressional Republican running interfernce for a arrested ex-President that is a Republican right now will have to tell it to the Federal judge….
Ya can’t make this shit up…..
The Manhattan district attorney on Tuesday sued Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio in an extraordinary step intended to keep congressional Republicans from interfering in the office’s criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump.
The 50-page suit, filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York, accuses Mr. Jordan of a “brazen and unconstitutional attack” on the prosecution of Mr. Trump and a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg. Mr. Bragg last week unveiled 34 felony charges against Mr. Trump that stem from the former president’s attempts to cover up a potential sex scandal during and after the 2016 presidential campaign.
Lawyers for Mr. Bragg are seeking to bar Mr. Jordan and his congressional allies from enforcing a subpoena sent to Mark F. Pomerantz, who was once a leader of the district attorney’s Trump investigation and who later wrote a book about that experience. Mr. Pomerantz resigned early last year after Mr. Bragg, just weeks into his first term in office, decided not to seek an indictment of Trump at that time.
Mr. Bragg’s lawyers, including Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. of the law firm Gibson Dunn and Leslie Dubeck, the general counsel in the district attorney’s office, also intend to prevent any other such subpoenas, the lawsuit says. Mr. Jordan has left open the possibility of subpoenaing Mr. Bragg….
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Mr. Jordan’s committee announced on Monday that it plans to hold a “field hearing” in New York City on April 17, apparently intending to suggest that Mr. Bragg is focused on the prosecution of Mr. Trump rather than Manhattan’s crime rate.
On Monday afternoon, a spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office characterized the hearing as a “political stunt” and pointed toward Police Department data that shows murders, shootings and burglaries are down in Manhattan this year….
Note…
This case is actually about compelling former DA Bragg’s prosocutirs to testify on inside information on Bragg’s case in public to hurt the DA’s case….
There IS a complication….
Mr. Pomerantz HAS written a book about the case which has led the media to probably pressue Bragg to actually revive the case after Pomerantz and another lawyer Carey Duane went public…
A further reading adds Bragg or any of the prosecutors…