Alvin Bragg responded to the House Republicans fatuous primal scream earlier today:
In a letter to Jordan and others Thursday, Bragg’s office said their request “treads into territory very clearly reserved to the states” — and noted that it had only come after Trump had “created a false expectation that he would be arrested … and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene.”
“Neither fact is a legitimate basis for congressional inquiry,” stated the letter from the district attorney’s office, signed by general counsel Leslie Dubeck.
Complying with their request would interfere with law enforcement and violate New York’s sovereignty, Dubeck added. The letter also poured cold water on Jordan’s suggestion that Congress needed those documents for a review of federal public safety funds, but said the district attorney’s office would nonetheless submit a letter describing its use of federal funds.
“While the DA’s Office will not allow a Congressional investigation to impede the exercise of New York’s sovereign police power, this Office will always treat a fellow government entity with due respect,” the letter from Bragg’s office concluded. “Therefore, again, we request a meet and confer to understand whether the Committee has any legitimate legislative purpose in the requested materials that could be accommodated without impeding those sovereign interests.”
It’s so, so stupid. And it gets even stupider:
House Republicans are expanding their investigation into Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s probe of former President Trump by seeking testimony from two prosecutors who resigned from the D.A.’s office last year.
It demonstrates a sustained effort by Republicans to undermine Bragg’s case amid reports that an indictment over hush money payments Trump allegedly paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels could be imminent.
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent letters to former prosecutors Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne, who helped lead the Trump case under former D.A. Cyrus Vance but resigned in protest last February after Bragg came into office and suspended the probe.
“Your criticisms of Bragg’s investigation were widely reported,” Jordan wrote, “It now appears that your efforts to shame Bragg have worked as he is reportedly resurrecting a so-called ‘zombie’ case.”
The letters ask both men to sit for transcribed interviews and turn over documents related to the Trump investigation, including communications with federal agencies and other staffers in the D.A.’s office.
I guess they want to beat up on these lawyers knowing they probably aren’t going to be able to defend themselves with the fact due to the ongoing criminal case. Whatever. If they want to keep licking Trump’s boots in public be my guest.