Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is still facing attempts by House Republicans including Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), who leads the chamber’s Judiciary Committee, to obtain revealing information on the probe Bragg has been conducting into Donald Trump.
That criminal investigation has culminated in charges for the ex-president alleging falsifications of business records covering reimbursements to Michael Cohen for the hush money he produced for Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election, although prosecutors’ already revealed interest extended to other topics as well, so there could be even more from Bragg’s team for the former president. Directly from Bragg, Jordan has sought materials like copies of communications involving former top office prosecutors Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne that related to Trump, and now, Jordan has also produced a subpoena for Pomerantz, who with Dunne worked specifically on the Trump investigation. Bragg shared a response to the subpoena.
“The House GOP continues to attempt to undermine an active investigation and ongoing New York criminal case with an unprecedented campaign of harassment and intimidation,” Bragg’s statement asserted in reply. “Repeated efforts to weaken state and local law enforcement actions are an abuse of power and will not deter us from our duty to uphold the law. These elected officials would better serve their constituents and the country, and fulfill their oath of office, by doing their jobs in Congress and not intruding on the sovereignty of the state of New York by interfering in an ongoing criminal matter in state court.” The responses from Bragg and his team to the continuing demands from House Republicans have been often blunt and getting more direct.
It seems easy to imagine that Bragg, as Pomerantz’s former superior, could have something to say legally about prospective testimony the ex-prosecutor may provide Republicans. Pomerantz and Dunne departed Bragg’s team amid apparent frustrations with the halting pace of progress against Trump, who has used tangential ties to Democratic politics held by Pomerantz as part of his public broadsides against Bragg and the underlying investigation. Already, the Republicans also expressed an interest in hearing directly from Bragg, so it doesn’t seem difficult to imagine that a subpoena for the elected prosecutor could be forthcoming — representing yet another avenue of targeting of the ongoing criminal investigation by officials in power elsewhere.
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— Alvin Bragg (@ManhattanDA) April 6, 2023
