{"id":2258902,"date":"2024-06-03T18:46:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T22:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordan-proposes-defunding-prosecutors-in-trump-cases\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T18:50:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T22:50:20","slug":"jim-jordan-proposes-defunding-prosecutors-in-trump-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordan-proposes-defunding-prosecutors-in-trump-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Jordan suggests cutting funds for prosecutors handling Trump&#8217;s cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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-jordan-proposes-defunding-prosecutors-in-trump-cases%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=2258902&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--><p>House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan from Ohio \u2064suggested defunding prosecutors\u200d handling legal cases involving Donald\u200c Trump, citing political motivations. The proposal, part of Jordan&#8217;s budget request to House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, aims\u2064 to\u200c halt \u2064funding for prosecutors engaged in what is termed\u2064 as &#8220;lawfare.&#8221; The move follows Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-smoking-out-political-retribution-by-prosecutors-in-trump-cases-speaker-johnson-says\/\" title=\"Speaker Johnson accuses House GOP of uncovering \"political retribution\" in Trump cases\">recent guilty verdict<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-doubles-down-on-vaccine-mandate\/\" title=\"Biden admin. doubles down on vaccine mandate\">ongoing legal battles<\/a>\u200c as he seeks reelection.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, House Judiciary Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jim-jordan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Jordan<\/a> (R-OH) submitted a plan to defund the prosecutors who are taking on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> in court battles that the former president \u2014 who is seeking re-election \u2014 and his allies claim are politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals, which appear in Jordan\u2019s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2024-06-03%20JDJ%20to%20Cole%20re%20Appropriations%20Riders%20List.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">budget request<\/a> to House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) for the fiscal year 2025, do not mention particular cases or any prosecutors by name, but they do describe situations that match the criminal matters involving Trump on the state and federal levels. The Judiciary Committee GOP <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1797713087912632664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> on X that Trump prosecutors are the focus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jim_Jordan<\/a> submits legislative proposals to DEFUND lawfare by Jack Smith, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, and Letitia James. <\/p>\n<p>Also, no money for new FBI headquarters. <\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-at-risk-of-shutdown-again-after-mccarthy-ouster-and-gop-civil-war\/\" title=\"Government faces shutdown risk after McCarthy ouster and GOP turmoil.\">full appropriations package<\/a> here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YnofN174Xb\">https:\/\/t.co\/YnofN174Xb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cmFOvXzRTL\">pic.twitter.com\/cmFOvXzRTL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 House Judiciary GOP \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1797713087912632664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have conducted oversight of the troubling rise in politicized prosecutions and the use of abusive \u2018lawfare\u2019 tactics to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-cruz-obama-biden-doj-was-politicized-and-weaponized-against-opponents\/\" title=\"Sen. Cruz: Obama-Biden DOJ was \u2018politicized and weaponized\u2019 against opponents\">target political opponents<\/a>,\u201d Jordan wrote in his <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2024-06-03%20JDJ%20to%20Cole%20re%20Appropriations%20Riders%20List.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cover letter<\/a> to Cole. \u201cWe have seen rogue prosecutors abuse the rules of professional conduct and their duty to do justice in service of politicized ends. We recommend that the Appropriations Committee, with appropriate consultation from leadership, include language to eliminate federal funding for state prosecutors or state attorneys general involved in lawfare and to zero out federal funding for federal prosecutors engaged in such abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A New York jury returned a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/verdict-trump-found-guilty-on-all-charges-in-hush-money-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guilty verdict<\/a> against Trump last week on all 34 felony counts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-the-charges-brought-against-the-trump-organizations-cfo-part-of-a-witch-hunt-experts-weigh-in\/\" title=\"Are The Charges Brought Against The Trump Organization\u2019s CFO Part Of A Witch Hunt? Experts Weigh In\">falsifying business records<\/a> to allegedly cover up payments in a bid to conceal a tryst with adult film star Stormy Daniels as part of a \u201ccatch-and-kill\u201d scheme to influence the 2016 election. Trump, who denied the affair and pleaded not guilty to the charges, said he would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/white-house-race-plunges-into-uncharted-territory-trump-awaits-july-sentencing-2024-05-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cappealing this scam<\/a>.\u201d Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who led the case, praised the jury and said his team followed \u201cthe facts and the law without fear or favor.\u201d Sentencing is scheduled for July 11.<\/p>\n<p>Three other criminal matters on the state and federal levels hang over Trump as he seeks re-election this year. Special counsel Jack Smith is spearheading a classified documents case and a 2020 election case against Trump in Florida and Washington, D.C., respectively. Georgia\u2019s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, is leading a separate 2020 case. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges he faces and claimed he is the victim of a \u201cwitch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has said that Republicans will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-gop-smoking-out-political-retribution-by-prosecutors-in-trump-cases-speaker-johnson-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cfight back\u201d<\/a> with \u201ceverything in our arsenal\u201d against \u201cpolitical retribution in the court system to go after political opponents.\u201d He also noted, \u201cWe have the funding streams. We have mechanisms to try to get control of that. We\u2019ll be doing that within the confines of our jurisdiction.\u201d In the Democrat-controlled Senate, a band of Republican senators have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/10-senate-republicans-sign-pledge-to-oppose-bidens-agenda-following-trump-guilty-verdict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vowed<\/a> to do what they can to stand in the way of President Joe Biden\u2019s agenda \u2014 including opposing his political and judicial nominees \u2014 to protest the prosecutions against Trump, though their ability to stop forward progress on their own is limited.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan\u2019s fiscal 2025 budget proposals included several other provisions geared toward immigration enforcement, border security, protecting FBI whistleblowers, addressing crime in Democrat-run cities, and fighting censorship of public discourse on the internet. The chairman also took aim at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/article\/news\/local\/maryland\/prince-georges-county-council-asks-to-be-included-in-fbi-headquarters-relocation-letter-to-congress\/65-39849e1c-e32a-46ef-ab6a-046d844b52ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal to relocate<\/a> the FBI\u2019s headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Prince George\u2019s County, Maryland. One section in Jordan\u2019s cover letter to Cole notes testimony about alleged \u201cmisconduct\u201d by leadership with the FBI and talks about a recommendation to include language \u201cto eliminate any funding for the FBI that is not essential for the agency to execute its mission, including rescinding prior appropriations and prohibiting new taxpayer funding for any new FBI headquarters facility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) proposed defunding the prosecutors in the legal battles against Donald Trump, alleging political bias. The plan, outlined in Jordan&#8217;s budget request to House Appropriations Chairman Tom, targets the ongoing cases allegedly affecting Trump&#8217;s re-election bid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2258903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2155329069-scaled-e1717448566254.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2155329069-scaled-e1717448566254.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258902","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}