Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a lawsuit against House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan in an effort to block Congress from “interfering” in his case against Trump.
The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, comes after Jim Jordan subpoenaed Hillary Clinton’s lawyer Mark Pomerantz for a deposition.
Bragg’s lawsuit seeks to block the House Judiciary Committee from enforcing the subpoena issued to Pomerantz.
In the lawsuit, Bragg accuses Jim Jordan of a “brazen and unconstitutional attack” on his criminal case against 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,” the lawsuit states.
Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor on the Manhattan DA’s team investigating Trump, resigned in protest after Bragg ended the investigation.
He later wrote a book on the topic, titled “The Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle Against Mafia Corruption and Wall Street Greed”, in which he claims the investigation “developed evidence convincing us that Donald Trump had committed serious crimes.”
The New York Post reported:
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sued the House Judiciary Committee and its chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan in an effort to block the panel from subpoenaing an attorney who worked on Bragg’s investigation of former President Donald Trump.
Jordan (R-Ohio) subpoenaed Mark Pomerantz April 6, two days after Trump, 76, was arraigned on 34 felony charges of falsifying business records. Pomerantz quit Bragg’s office last year after the DA initially decided not to prosecute Trump and later wrote a book calling for the prosecution of the 45th president.
Bragg’s lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, called Jordan’s subpoena an “unprecedently brazen and unconstitutional attack” on the case against Trump.
“Chairman Jordan’s demands, including his subpoena to Mr. Pomerantz, seek highly sensitive and confidential local prosecutorial information that belongs to the Office of the District Attorney and the People of New York,” the lawsuit read. “Basic principles of federalism and common sense, as well as binding Supreme Court precedent, forbid Congress from demanding it.”
