Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has brought forward a case against House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, and accused Jordan of initiating probes into Bragg’s prosecution of Donald Trump as an attempt to “intimidate and attack” his office.
Tuesday’s filing of Bragg’s lawsuit in New York federal court occurred after Jordan’s subpoena to Mark Pomerantz, a previous prosecutor implicated in the Trump probe. Jordan had also asked for personal emails.
The lawsuit claims:
“[Bragg] brings this action in response to an unprecedently brazen and unconstitutional attack by members of Congress on an ongoing New York State criminal prosecution and investigation of former President Donald J. Trump.
Beginning on March 20, 2023, Representative Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary (‘the Committee’), began a transparent campaign to intimidate and attack District Attorney Bragg, making demands for confidential documents and testimony from the District Attorney himself as well as his current and former employees and officials.”
Bragg’s lawsuit argued:
“Congress has no power to supervise state criminal prosecutions. Nor does Congress have the power to serve subpoenas ‘for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to punish those investigated”
Jordan subpoenaed Mark Pomerantz, the former special assistant district attorney who headed the probes into Donald Trump’s finances, last week.
Pomerantz quit in protest from the Manhattan district attorney’s office after the DA wavered to court Trump’s case.
Bragg criticized the action by Republicans, claiming that it’s an attempt to disable an ongoing probe, and he urged elected officials to “fulfill their oath of office” by refraining from interrupting an on-going state court criminal case.
