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The Manhattan district attorney who prosecuted former President Donald Trump ran a politically motivated investigation while allowing common criminals off the hook. That was one of the conclusions of Republican lawmakers and witnesses at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Trump. Bragg has agreed to appear before the committee in July. In his opening statement, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the committee’s chairman, said that Bragg ran for district attorney while “bragging” about suing Trump and vowing to prosecute the former president. When Bragg took office in 2022, the first thing he did, Jordan said, was release a “Day One memo,” committing to “progressive, soft on crime, anti-victim policies.” That included reducing some violent crimes, such as armed robbery, to misdemeanors. Despite his commitment to prosecuting Trump, Bragg told one of his prosecutors that the case was too weak, in large part because the lead witness, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, couldn’t be trusted, Jordan said. Cohen had pleaded guilty to lying to Congress and was disbarred. Jordan said that Bragg received pressure from the Left to prosecute Trump, especially after the former president announced he would be running for president again in 2024. Shortly after the Trump presidential announcement, Bragg hired Matthew Colangelo, a senior official in President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. The Ohio congressman said that the pattern of Bragg’s actions demonstrates that the judicial system has been contorted to go after Trump. “Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of President Trump was personal, was based on politics, and was wrong,” Jordan said. One of the witnesses at the hearing, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, also said that the prosecution was “politically motivated” and “replete with legal error.” Alvin Bragg's prosecution of President Trump was politically motivated and replete with legal error.1. Prosecutors are explicitly forbidden from waging politically motivated prosecutions. 2. The charges’ reference to an unspecified and unidentifiable other crime constitutes a… pic.twitter.com/M24bJcJxzA— House Judiciary GOP ?????? (@JudiciaryGOP) June 13, 2024 Bailey, a Republican, said that in the Trump case, the prosecutor “perverted the law to meet the facts, rather than objectively apply the facts to the law.” He noted that the prosecution failed to correct the court’s instructions to jurors in the case. “The prosecutor failed to correct the court’s error in instructing the jury that unanimity was not required as to the predicate offense that forms the basis for the fallacious charges,” Bailey said. The Missouri attorney general said that trial by jury requires a unanimous decision of guilt for every offense, but the court didn’t instruct jurors to act in this way, which is why Trump was found guilty on all 34 charges. Federal Election Commission member James E. “Trey” Trainor III, who was appointed by Trump, said that the legal theory the New York court convicted Trump on was absurd. Trump was convicted of violations of campaign-finance law. WATCH: FEC Commissioner Trey Trainor testifies about the absurd legal theory Alvin Bragg used to prosecute President Trump pic.twitter.com/jya5rdlJ1B— House Judiciary GOP ?????? (@JudiciaryGOP) June 13, 2024 “District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to pursue charges against former President Trump for alleged violations of campaign-finance laws marks a significant deviation from this established legal framework,” Trainor said. “Doing so, Bragg has effectively usurped the jurisdiction that this Congress has explicitly reserved for federal authorities.” Trainor said that the Trump case “sets a disturbing precedent for the politicization of legal proceedings at the state level.” He said that the case opens a can of worms, wherein states can now use creative interpretations of campaign-finance laws against former presidents, presidential candidates, and other people running for federal office. Trainor also condemned the Department of Justice for not intervening in this case, despite it being under federal jurisdiction. He said the campaign-finance laws are designed to allow the DOJ to ensure that the laws are not used to manipulate the political process, especially in an election year. Democrats at the hearing supported the Bragg decision and said that Republicans were undermining the courts by questioning the Trump verdict. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., focused on Trump being a “convicted felon” in his remarks during the hearing. “Just a show of hands for anyone in the room who hung out with a felon today?” Swalwell asked, rhetorically. “Hey, guys, you might want to get your hands up. You were hanging out with convicted felon Donald Trump. I don’t think anyone on our side did. That’s why we’re here.” Swalwell said that Trump’s legal team had the chance to help choose the jury in New York. The California congressman also asserted that Fox News celebrated the recent conviction in the case of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, on charges related to the illegal purchase of a firearm. Swalwell also questioned Republican support for the Supreme Court, which might ultimately decide the Trump cases. “One judge is flying an insurrection flag in solidarity with the insurrection on Jan. 6, [2021] that tried to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election,” the California Democrat said, referring to the story about how an “Appeal to Heaven” flag—originally created by an aide to George Washington in the American Revolution—was seen flying at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home in 2021. Swalwell said that Republicans on the committee chose to help a felon over families by focusing on the Trump trial. The post At Judiciary Committee Hearing on Trump’s NYC Trial, House Republicans Decry Politicized Indictment appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Two weeks after Democrats gloated over the guilty verdict of former President Donald Trump, six Senate Republicans are vowing to exact revenge for the Biden administration’s use of lawfare to target a political opponent. Their target: 44 nominees of President Joe Biden who are awaiting Senate confirmation. The six GOP senators—JD Vance of Ohio, Mike Lee of Utah, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Roger Marshall of Kansas, and Eric Schmitt of Missouri—joined forces Thursday with a commitment to block confirmation of the nominees. We need to fight back against the weaponization of government against political opposition. I’m proud to stand with a number of my Republican senate colleagues and do just that. pic.twitter.com/ZJBv6ZlOQk— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) June 13, 2024 Tuberville, who last year delayed the promotions of military officers over a dispute with the Biden administration, is now using his ability as a senator to stop the Democrat-led chamber from swiftly confirming Biden’s nominees. This time, he’ll have more Republicans to back him up. “Every signer is pledged to defend against attempts to fast-track the confirmation of Biden nominees,” the senators wrote in their letter. “This will be accomplished through a joint effort and not be reliant upon a single Member’s willingness to hold every nominee.” They added: In a continuing response to the current administration’s persecution of President Donald Trump, we will not allow the fast-tracking of any Biden Article III court judicial nominees, as well as Biden U.S. attorney nominations. Further, we will not permit the fast-tracking of nominees who have suggested the Trump prosecutions were reasonable, endorsed President Trump’s guilt in these sham proceedings, joined or supported organizations that celebrated the indictment of President Trump, supported the ‘get-Trump’ candidacy of Alvin Bragg, or supported lawfare or censorship in other ways. This complement to the pledge of May 31 will last until Election Day, when the American people will have the opportunity to decisively reject attempts to settle political disputes through the legal system. That earlier pledge, issued shortly after a New York jury’s guilty verdict of Trump, promised to oppose Democrats’ legislative priorities and nominations. If we ignore what they’re doing to Trump — that Biden and his allies are trying to lock up Biden’s last standing political opponent — we’ll be on the high road to banana-republic status.Things have to change in the Senate for the rest of this year — because they have changed. pic.twitter.com/SJebguMh5l— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) June 13, 2024 The new effort puts the focus on the following 44 nominees awaiting confirmation. Johnny C. Gogo, nominated to be a U.S. attorney for the Districts of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands April M. Perry, nominated to be a U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Joshua S. Levy, nominated to be a U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts Rebecca C. Lutzko, nominated to be a U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Matthew L. Gannon, nominated to be a U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Iowa David C. Waterman, nominated to be a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Iowa Joseph Russell Palmore, nominated to be an associate judge for the DC Court of Appeals Carmen G. Iguina Gonzalez, nominated to be an associate judge for the DC Court of Appeals John Cuong Truong, nominated to be an associate judge for the DC Superior Court Rahkel Bouchet, nominated to be an associate judge for the DC Superior Court Ray D. McKenzie, nominated to be an associate judge for the DC Superior Court Erin Camille Johnston, nominated to be an associate judge for the DC Superior Court Sherri Malloy Beatty-Arthur, nominated to be an associate judge for the DC Superior Court Anne Hwang, nominated to be a judge for the Central District of California Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon, nominated to be a judge for the Central District of California Michelle Williams Court, nominated to be a judge for the Central District of California Stacey D. Neumann, nominated to be a judge for the District of Maine Adam B. Abelson, nominated to be a judge for the District of Maryland Danna R. Jackson, nominated to be a judge for the District of Montana Embry J. Kidd, nominated to be a judge for the 11th Circuit Joseph Francis Saporito, Jr., nominated to be a judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Rebecca Suzanne Kanter, nominated to be a judge for the Southern District of California Detra Shaw-Wilder, nominated to be a judge for the Southern District of Florida Sarah Netburn, nominated to be a judge for the Southern District of New York Meredith A. Vacca, nominated to be a judge for the Western District of New York Julia M. Lipez, nominated to be a judge for the 1st Circuit Mary Kay Lanthier, nominated to be a judge for the District of Vermont Catherine Henry, nominated to be a judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Karla M. Campbell, nominated to be a Judge for the 6th Circuit Charlie Crist, nominated to be the U.S. representative to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization Corey Anne Tellez, nominated to be deputy undersecretary for the Department of the Treasury Andrew William Plitt, nominated to be an assistant administrator of the Agency for International Development James J. Blanchard, nominated to be a member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy Margaret L. Taylor, nominated to be a legal advisor for the Department of State Jay T. Snyder, nominated to be a member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy John Gleeson, nominated to be a Member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission Christopher H. Schroeder, nominated to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation Leslie N. Bluhm, nominated to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service Jeffrey R. Gural, nominated to be chairman of the Public Buildings Reform Board Martin Joseph Walsh, nominated to be governor of the U.S. Postal Service John Bradford Wiegmann, nominated for general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Barbara Lee, nominated to be representative to the General Assembly of the United Nations Vivek Hallegere Murthy, nominated to be representative of the United States on the Board of the World Health Organization Janet Louise Yellen, nominated to be governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, governor of the Inter-American Development Bank, governor of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and governor of the International Monetary Fund Sen. JD Vance listens to former President Donald Trump during his New York trial. (Photo: Mark Peterson/Getty Images) The post GOP Senators Reveal Plan to Halt Confirmation of These 44 Biden Nominees appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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