Jim Jordan's sordid attack on possible Trump charges demands an answer

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/22/jim-jordan-alvin-bragg-trump-indictment-possible/

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If and when Donald Trump faces criminal charges, it will thrust the country into a new type of political war over an unprecedented situation, and Republicans are already rising to the occasion. They’re signaling a willingness to deploy the full levers of their power in sordid but novel ways, to paint any prosecution as the stuff of banana republics.

Democrats will have to marshal some serious creativity in response. The extraordinary move by House Republicans to insert themselves into Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation of Trump provides Democrats with an opening to do just that.

This week, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other top Republicans sent a letter to Bragg demanding documents and testimony related to expectations that Bragg might charge Trump over a hush-money payment to a porn actress in 2016. The letter declared this an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority,” even though no charges have been filed.

But it’s not clear that Jordan, the Judiciary Committee chair, has thought this through. The course of action signaled by the letter — also signed by Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) — could go sideways for Republicans in unforeseen ways.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. On the brink of Federal Obstruction of a local case?

Smells like Federal government overreach to me. There is no Federal jurisdiction here.

[underpants]

2. They've weaponized government to investigate weaponizing government

and from I’ve read, as you state, they are out of their sandbox.

[bpj62]

3. Read the letter

According to Jim Jordan the House Judiciary Committee has the legal authority to investigate any criminal case regardless of jurisdiction. I am pretty certain that is not correct but whoever wrote the letter put that phrase in there.

[Nevilledog]

5. I am unaware of ANY legal way for them to interfere in a state criminal investigation.

[Boomerproud]

4. Since when has Jordan or any repug congresscitter thought anything through?

They leave their pile of dung and go along to the next outrage. How are Democrats supposed to respond?

[Brother Buzz]

6. The honorable Ted Lieu couched the subject masterfully - Say no more

Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding Republican efforts to interfere with the Manhattan District Attorney's investigation into the former President.

"Republicans are in the midst of another all-out blitz to interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation. Instead of working with Democrats to help American families and strengthen our economy, Speaker McCarthy and House Republicans are focused on using the powers of Congress to subvert law enforcement. The former president has yet to be charged with a crime, yet Republicans are making serious accusations about a criminal investigation without seeing evidence, without seeing charging documents, and without any proof of prosecutorial wrongdoing. Time and again Speaker McCarthy, Chairman Jim Jordan, and other Republican leaders have sided with the most extreme wing of the GOP and chosen chaos over governing. Clearly, the Speaker of the House is so busy interfering in a criminal investigations that he doesn’t have time to present a budget."