House Judiciary Will Notice From Victims Of Violent Crime On Manhattan DA’s’s Ground
House Republicans are going to the Big Apple to prevent Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney looking into former President Donald Trump.
A field hearing was announced on Monday by the Judiciary Committee, which is headed by Rep. Jim Jordan( R-OH ). The hearing will take place the following week. Violent crime sufferers are expected to attend the event, which is scheduled for next Monday at 9 a.m. Republicans claim the attorney is ignoring them in favor of an important social goal.
Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan will be the subject of the reading, which will look at how Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s’s pro-crime and anti-victim guidelines have contributed to an increase in violent offense and a serious place for New York City residents.
— April 10, 2023, House Judiciary GOP(@ JudiciaryGOP )
The hearing will be live-streamed in the Javits Federal Building, in a five-minute walk from the area attorney’s’s main work, even though no witnesses have been named as of yet.
The statement adds to the conflict between Trump-supporting congressional Republicans and Bragg, who have been looking into hush money payments throughout the 2016 election cycle. A grand jury indicted Trump last year, and he entered a not guilty plea to 34 misdemeanor counts of falsifying business information.
Since beginning his term as district attorney at the beginning of 2022, Bragg, a Democrat, has been accused of being” soft” on crime. In order to achieve” fairness and safety ,” he issued a” Day One” memo advising prosecutors to withdraw from cases involving low-level offenses and refrain from seeking prison sentences except for the most serious of crimes. However, Bragg changed his mind a month later after getting what he called” useful comment.”
Great acts did indeed increase in New York City last year, despite persistent stories about violent crimes in the place of more than eight million residents. Fact-checkers have refuted claims made by Trump and others that harsh murder in Manhattan has skyrocketed, pointing to the peak of the 1990s.
Jordan’s’s panel has already started looking into Bragg and is looking for information from the prosecution work, including communications, records, and evidence. The president released a lawsuit last month asking former New York County Special Assistant District Attorney Mark Pomerantz, who has been gung-ho about accusing Trump of crimes, to testify.
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The House GOP was criticized in a statement issued in response to the summons for” attempting an active investigation and ongoing New York legal case with an unprecedented system of abuse and coercion.”
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have criticized their Democratic counterparts for putting so much emphasis on Bragg.
The ranking member of the panel, Rep. Jerry Nadler( D-NY ), said in a statement following Trump’s’s indictment that” the most extreme House Republicans are already trying to bully the law enforcement officers involved.” ” I have no idea how this case will be decided, but I do know that DA Bragg won’t be intimidated or deterred by the political pranks Jim Jordan and [ House Speaker ] Kevin McCarthy pull on him.”
Jordan defended the investigation, claiming that the Judiciary Committee” is overseeing Bragg’s’s extraordinary legal conduct to notify the interest of potential legislative measures that would, among other things, keep state or local politically motivated prosecutions of current or former leaders.”
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