{"id":2012842,"date":"2023-08-26T07:19:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T11:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordans-investigations-into-manhattan-and-fulton-das-test-congressional-limits\/"},"modified":"2023-08-26T07:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T11:20:39","slug":"jim-jordans-investigations-into-manhattan-and-fulton-das-test-congressional-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordans-investigations-into-manhattan-and-fulton-das-test-congressional-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Jordan&#8217;s probes of Manhattan and Fulton DAs push boundaries in Congress."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjim-jordans-investigations-into-manhattan-and-fulton-das-test-congressional-limits%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012842&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The House Judiciary Committee Launches Second Inquiry\u200b into Criminal Case Against\u2064 Former \u200cPresident Donald Trump<\/h2>\n<p>The House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan \u2063(R-OH), has sent a letter to Fulton County District Attorney \u2064Fani Willis,\u200c initiating its second inquiry into a local criminal case against former \u200dPresident \u2062Donald Trump. This move comes after the\u200c committee&#8217;s previous involvement in \u2064Manhattan District Attorney \u200dAlvin Bragg&#8217;s prosecution \u200bof Trump in New York.<\/p>\n<h3>Committee\u2063 Chairman Asserts &#8220;Substantial \u2064Federal Interests&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>In the letter, Chairman Jordan\u200b argues that Willis&#8217;s prosecution\u200b involves &#8220;substantial federal interests,&#8221; a point he and other committee chairmen\u200b have emphasized throughout the year in their exchanges with District Attorney\u200c Bragg. \u200bBragg, however, accused the\u200d chairmen of inappropriate interference\u200d in state affairs.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Their attempted interference\u200b with\u2062 an ongoing state criminal \u200binvestigation\u2014and\u200b now prosecution\u2014is \u200dan unprecedented and illegitimate incursion on\u200d New York&#8217;s sovereign interests,&#8221;\u2063 Bragg wrote \u200din response.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These exchanges eventually led to a lawsuit filed by Bragg, seeking to \u200cprevent Jordan from\u200c subpoenaing one of his \u2064former attorneys \u2062and to\u200d halt what\u200b he \u200bcalled a &#8220;constitutionally destructive fishing expedition&#8221; by Congress.\u200b However, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-dissidents-slam-nominee-for-top-defense-post\/\" title=\"Iranian Dissidents Slam Nominee for Top Defense Post\">federal judge ruled<\/a> in favor of Jordan, recognizing his authority to investigate Bragg&#8217;s case for legislative \u2063purposes.<\/p>\n<h3>Jordan Outlines &#8220;Substantial Federal Interests&#8221; \u200bto Willis<\/h3>\n<p>In an effort to avoid a similar back-and-forth, Chairman \u200bJordan has \u200dprovided explicit details to District Attorney Willis regarding the &#8220;substantial federal interests&#8221; he \u200bhas with her office. \u2063Willis recently indicted Trump and 18 others, including former White House officials, on felony racketeering charges related to their alleged attempts to \u2063overturn the 2020\u2062 election results in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan has requested\u200c several documents and communications from \u200dWillis, citing four justifications for\u200b the \u2064demand:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The indictment raises concerns about the\u200d Constitution&#8217;s Supremacy Clause, as it appears to regulate the conduct of federal officers \u200dacting in their official capacities.<\/li>\n<li>The federal government \u200chas the authority\u200c to investigate \u2064matters affecting\u2064 the welfare of \u200dformer presidents, who are entitled to federal benefits even after leaving \u2063office. The indictment implicates the 2024 \u200dpresidential election, in which Trump is\u2064 the GOP front-runner.<\/li>\n<li>Congress has \u200cjurisdiction \u2064over federal dollars and can investigate any district attorney office&#8217;s expenditures involving federal funds.<\/li>\n<li>Questions arise regarding the coordination\u2064 between Willis&#8217;s office and the \u200dDepartment of \u200dJustice, particularly in relation to the federal indictment brought against Trump by special \u200dcounsel Jack Smith in Washington, D.C., related\u2064 to the\u200d 2020\u2064 election.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Jordan asserts that Congress has a vested interest in\u2064 any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordans-investigations-into-manhattan-and-fulton-das-test-congressional-limits\/\" title=\"Jim Jordan's probes of Manhattan and Fulton DAs push boundaries in Congress.\">activity \u2064involving \u200bfederal law enforcement agencies falling<\/a> \u200bunder its oversight.<\/p>\n<h3>Response and Criticism<\/h3>\n<p>Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA), a\u2062 committee member and former military prosecutor, criticized Jordan&#8217;s inquiry as &#8220;stupid,&#8221; specifically addressing the involvement \u200dof \u200cDOJ and FBI \u2063agents with \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-pledges-orderly-transition-of-power\/\" title=\"President Trump pledges orderly transition of power\">local law enforcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;His &#8216;investigation&#8217; is\u2063 stupid,&#8221; Lieu wrote\u200b on social media. &#8220;DOJ and FBI agents work with local law enforcement all the time. Totally irrelevant if they did that here, or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Representative Jerry Nadler (D-NY), the \u2063committee&#8217;s ranking member, did not comment on the Willis \u200dinvestigation. However, earlier this year,\u2063 Nadler criticized committee Republicans \u2063for\u200b prioritizing &#8220;defending Trump&#8221; over allowing Bragg&#8217;s case to proceed\u2063 in court.<\/p>\n<h3>Ongoing Inquiries and Legislative Considerations<\/h3>\n<p>Jordan&#8217;s inquiry into Bragg&#8217;s prosecution has seemingly been dormant since\u2064 his successful lawsuit \u200band deposition of Bragg&#8217;s former\u200d attorney. However, a spokesperson confirmed \u200bthat\u2063 the \u200binquiry remains open, and the committee is also considering legislation related \u200bto Bragg&#8217;s indictment, \u2064such \u2064as \u2064the No More Political Prosecutions Act proposed by Representative Russell Fry (R-SC).<\/p>\n<p>As \u200cfor the inquiry \u200binto Willis, Chairman\u200d Jordan has \u200bgiven the district \u200dattorney until\u2063 September 7th to respond with \u200dthe requested materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click\u2062 here<\/a> to \u200dread more from The\u2064 Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Judiciary Committee initiated its second inquiry into the criminal case against ex-President Donald Trump by sending a letter to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), a staunch Trump supporter, argued that the prosecution held significant federal interests, along with other committee members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2012843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}