Manhattan district lawyer Alvin Bragg has reached a cope with Home Republicans permitting the Home Judiciary Committee to query an ex-prosecutor about Bragg’s indictment of former President Trump.
In March, the committee, led by Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan had subpoenaed Mark Pomerantz, a former Manhattan prosecutor who had penned a tell-all ebook concerning the DA Bragg’s investigation of Trump, inquiring if any federal funds had been used within the investigation of the previous president.
The GOP argued that that they had a proper and an obligation to analyze whether or not these had been “politically motivated state investigations and prosecutions.”
Bragg slammed the committee and sued Rep. Jordan in an try to dam the subpoena, however was shot down by a federal decide, who informed him, “Nobody is above the legislation.”
Now, after Bragg appealed the ruling and was afforded a brief suspension, the New York Submit has reported that Bragg has withdrawn the movement after reaching an settlement with Home Republicans on Friday.
Underneath the settlement, the Home Judiciary Committee can be allowed to query Pomerantz on Could twelfth, a later date than was initially scheduled, and can be allowed to have a lawyer from Bragg’s workplace current for questioning.
Curiously, each side see the decision as a victory.
“We’re happy with this decision, which ensures any questioning of our former worker will happen within the presence of our Common Counsel on an affordable, agreed upon timeframe,” Bragg mentioned.
The guts of the congressional probe is whether or not or not federal funds had been utilized by the Manhattan DA’s workplace to analyze and indict the previous president. If that did occur, the Home has the correct to have oversight on the spending of these funds.
It’s going to additionally assist the GOP to show that the investigation and indictment are politically motivated and an try to learn the Democrats forward of the 2024 election.
Bragg won’t must reply the questions himself, however the solutions offered by Mark Pomerantz ought to permit the Home Judiciary Committee to have a greater thought of what the case is de facto all about.
Maybe extra importantly, nonetheless, it can permit the GOP to explode the case in opposition to Donald Trump within the courtroom of public opinion earlier than the case makes it to trial later this yr.
When one considers the truth that it is a radical leftist DA who’s conducting an investigation in opposition to a politician who’s the main challenger to Joe Biden within the subsequent election, it’s arduous to not think about the likelihood that the indictment is politically motivated.
That is very true when one considers the soft-on-crime strategy Bragg has taken in his district whereas taking huge efforts to prosecute a legally ambiguous case in opposition to Donald Trump.
If the Home GOP can show that Bragg took federal funding to conduct a politically motivated investigation in opposition to the previous president, it can have huge potential ramifications on the case and on the 2024 election.
It might mobilize Trump’s voter base to return out in full pressure subsequent yr, and it might even sway many independents away from the Democrats, who’re uneasy with the political nature of the prosecution.
In truth, Bragg could have simply handed Trump the marketing campaign instrument that he must win again the White Home in 2024 by inadvertently making a groundswell of help for the previous president.
For sure, Bragg must tread very fastidiously, in any other case, he dangers seeing the entire thing blow up in his face.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.