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Bragg called the subpoena part of a "campaign of intimidation" by Trump's congressional allies in response to the first-ever criminal charges against a U.S. president. Trump is seeking the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2024. Jordan has said Bragg's charges against Trump demonstrated the need to evaluate Congress' provision of federal funds to local prosecutors. Bragg has accused Republican congressmen of trying to impede New York's "sovereign authority" and interfere in an ongoing criminal case. U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil is set to hold a hearing in the case on Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan.

☆ Is Alvin Bragg’s Case Against Trump Constitutional?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( David B. Rivkin Jr. | Kristin A. Shapiro | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg ’s indictment of Donald Trump could mean trouble down the road for Joe Biden. “I think our Republican AGs and DAs”—attorneys general and district attorneys—“should get creative,” Mike Davis , a Republican former Senate staffer, told the New York Post. But under the Trump precedent, what’s to stop an ambitious Republican prosecutor somewhere from bringing dubious state charges against him before a hostile jury after he leaves office? Every four to eight years, prosecutors would order up a presidential ham sandwich. Presidents might end up having to flee the country when they leave office.

☆ Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan holds Manhattan hearing to blast DA's record on crime despite 73% higher murder rate at home
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Rep. Jim Jordan held a Manhattan hearing criticizing its 'soft-on-real-crime' DA. The House Judiciary Committee hearing was met with pushback about crime in red states like Jordan's. NYPD stats show that the first three months of 2023 have seen a decline in Manhattan crime compared with the first three months of last year. The chairman is doing the bidding of Donald Trump," Nadler said. Bragg responded by suing Jordan and the House Judiciary Committee; his lawsuit seeks to block the subpoena and to stop Jordan's investigation.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan on Friday rejected Trump's renewed effort to require that prospective jurors provide their names, employment and 38 other pieces of information on written questionnaires. While jurors would hear much about Trump even in "normal" circumstances, "the risk of prejudice is even more elevated" because of Bragg's case, Trump's lawyers said. She is separately suing Trump for defamation over his June 2019 denial that the dressing room encounter happened. The case is Carroll v Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York Editing by Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ The Veteran Lawyers Who Will Lead the Prosecution of Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Joe Palazzolo | Rebecca Ballhaus | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The team prosecuting Donald Trump in Manhattan is a mix of young lawyers and veterans, career officials and longtime criminal defense attorneys who recently returned to government work. The historic case against the former president will tap into their combined experience as they confront a singular defendant who tends to make fights personal. Mr. Trump, who is running for a second White House term, has derided District Attorney Alvin Bragg as an “animal” and a “psychopath” on social media and called for his resignation in a speech last week. He targeted one of the prosecutors on Mr. Bragg’s team by name on social media, falsely accusing him of being a plant by the Biden administration.

They said the involvement of Hoffman, a prominent Democratic donor, raised the question of whether Carroll sued Trump, a Republican, to advance a political agenda. They had called Trump's request irrelevant to the defamation claim, and said Trump waived the argument by earlier raising and then dropping a similar request. She also has a still-pending defamation lawsuit filed in November 2019 against Trump over his denial five months earlier that the rape took place. The case is Carroll v Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York Editing by Chris ReeseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Trump could admit to having an affair — if only so he can use Melania as a defense if his case ever makes it to trial, legal experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Three former prosecutors told Insider that AG Alvin Bragg's hush-money case against Trump is weak. But if the matter does make it to trial, the former president could use his wife to his benefit. More than a week after former President Donald Trump was indicted on 34 charges of falsifying business records, legal experts are skeptical of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case. Three former prosecutors speculated about possible defense strategies the former president might use in such a case. But legal experts stressed that any speculation about a possible Trump defense at this point is still entirely conjecture.

[1/3] Former U.S. President Donald Trump departs from Trump Tower to give a deposition to New York Attorney General Letitia James who sued Trump and his Trump Organization, in New York City, U.S., April 13, 2023. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, which had last September asked the Washington court for guidance on local law. Alina Habba, a lawyer for Trump, said in an email: "We are confident that the Second Circuit will rule in President Trump's favor and dismiss Ms. Carroll's case." Carroll, 79, has long accused Trump of stalling to keep jurors from ever hearing her case. The case is Trump et al v. Carroll, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, No.

[1/3] Former U.S. President Donald Trump departs from Trump Tower to give a deposition to New York Attorney General Letitia James who sued Trump and his Trump Organization, in New York City, U.S., April 13, 2023. The district's highest local court, the Court of Appeals, said it did not have enough facts to decide whether Trump was acting as president when he accused the former Elle magazine columnist in June 2019 of lying about the alleged encounter. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, which had last September asked whether under local law Trump made his comments in his role as president, or in his personal capacity as Carroll argued. The Washington court said the 2nd Circuit or a federal district judge in Manhattan should assess Trump's role. The case is Trump et al v. Carroll, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, No.

☆ Trump faces deposition in New York AG Letitia James' fraud lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former US president Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower in New York on April 12, 2023. Donald Trump said he is being deposed Thursday in New York City as part of the state attorney general's $250 million civil lawsuit alleging widespread fraud by the former president and his company. Trump announced on social media overnight that he had "just arrived in Manhattan for a deposition in front of" New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of the sweeping lawsuit. Trump is "not only willing but also eager to testify before the Attorney General today," his attorney, Alina Habba, told CNBC in a statement. James filed the civil fraud lawsuit last September against Trump, three of his adult children, the Trump Organization and others.

Lanny Davis, a lawyer for Cohen, called Trump's lawsuit "frivolous." "Mr. Trump is once again using and abusing the judicial system as a form of harassment and intimidation against Michael Cohen," Davis said. Trump's lawsuit said Cohen wrongfully called Trump "racist" in the disbarred lawyer's 2020 book, entitled "Disloyal," and fabricated conversations with Trump from when he served as his attorney. Once known for intense loyalty to Trump, Cohen has become a harsh critic and has assisted law enforcement agencies and lawmakers investigating his former boss. Trump filed a suit against James seeking to halt her civil case, but a judge dismissed it, writing that there was "no evidence" that the investigation was undertaken in bad faith.

April 12 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump is suing his former lawyer Michael Cohen for more than $500 million, according to a filing in federal court in Florida on Wednesday. The lawsuit accuses Cohen of violating his attorney-client relationship with Trump by revealing his "confidences" and "spreading falsehoods" in books, podcasts and media appearances. It says Cohen wrongfully called Trump "racist" in his 2020 book, "Disloyal," and fabricated conversations with Trump. Cohen was a top executive at Trump's real estate company and then worked as his personal lawyer when Trump assumed office in 2017. Cohen in 2018 pleaded guilty to violating federal election law through the $130,000 payment to the porn star, Stormy Daniels.

Prospective jurors, they added, "will have the breathless coverage of President Trump's alleged extra-marital affair with Stormy Daniels still ringing in their ears if [the] trial goes forward as scheduled." Those charges concerned Trump's alleged concealment of a $130,000 hush money payment to buy Daniels' silence before the 2016 election about the porn star's alleged affair with him, which he denies. She is also suing Trump for battery over the alleged encounter, which Trump has also said never happened. The 79-year-old also sued Trump for defamation in November 2019 over his similar denial of her rape claim five months earlier. The case is Carroll v Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

☆ GOP's early 2024 pickle: Support 1 of 3 minority candidates for president or stick with the aggrieved white guy who could be a convicted felon by Election Day
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Republican Sen. Tim Scott has inched closer to challenging Donald Trump in 2024. Current polling casts Trump, who is battling multiple investigations, as the odds-on favorite. Market research firm Morning Consult shows both Scott and Ramaswamy polling at only 1%, and Haley polling at 4%. And that's after he was arraigned on 34 counts of falsifying business records, charges Trump and his House GOP defenders assert are politically motivated. "Our divisions run deep, and the threat to our future is real," Scott said of the existential crisis at hand.

☆ Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Sues Jim Jordan Over Trump Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Corinne Ramey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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[1/2] U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is asked questions by a journalist as he walks to the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Leah MillisNEW YORK, April 11 (Reuters) - Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday sued Republican U.S. Representative Jim Jordan to stop what Bragg called an "unconstitutional attack" on the ongoing criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump in New York. The lawsuit aims to block a subpoena of Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor who had led the Manhattan district attorney's investigation of Trump. The subpoena, issued last week by the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, which Jordan chairs, seeks Pomerantz's appearance before the committee for a deposition. Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York and Kanishka Singh in Washington; editing by Doina Chiacu and Leslie AdlerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Manhattan DA Bragg sues Rep. Jordan over House probe of Trump investigation
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a House Judiciary Committee subpoena issued last week to a former prosecutor who played a key role in Bragg's criminal investigation of ex-President Donald Trump. Bragg's suit escalates a battle that began when the Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and other Trump allies in the House recently opened an inquiry into the D.A. The suit calls that inquiry an "unprecedently brazen and unconstitutional attack by members of Congress on an ongoing New York State criminal prosecution and investigation of former President Donald J. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan says that "Congress has no power to supervise state criminal prosecution." "The suit names as defendants Jordan, the Judiciary Committee and Mark Pomerantz, who resigned last year from Bragg's office as a special assistant D.A.

☆ Manhattan DA sues GOP Rep. Jim Jordan for launching an 'unprecedentedly brazen and unconstitutional' attack on Trump prosecution
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, the House Judiciary Committee, and a prosecutor who previously worked for Bragg. In the 50-page lawsuit, Bragg accused Jordan of launching an "unprecedentedly brazen and unconstitutional attack" on the DA's office while it's in the middle of an ongoing investigation and criminal prosecution against former President Donald Trump. Bragg's lawsuit went on to say that Jordan started a "transparent campaign to intimidate and attack District Attorney Bragg, making demands for confidential documents and testimony from the District Attorney himself as well as his current and former employees and officials." The letter called Bragg's investigation "an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority." Insider reached out to spokespeople for Jordan, Bragg, and Pomerantz for comment.

☆ Alvin Bragg's staff urges Jim Jordan to stay at home in Ohio if he wants a look at high murder rates rather than trekking to NYC
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged Trump with falsifying business records. House Judiciary chair Jim Jordan is holding a field hearing in New York to try and shame Bragg. A Bragg aide said Jordan could more effectively crack down on crime by looking at murders in Ohio. A Bragg spokesman called the pending congressional visit a political stunt, telling Bloomberg News that murders in New York City were three times lower than the murder rate in Columbus, Ohio. New York City, which has a population of roughly 18.9 million, closed out 2022 with 433 murders, the Wall Street Journal reported, for a murder rate of 2.3 murders per 100,000 citizens.

☆ Trump attorney says Manhattan is an 'unfair venue' for the former president, calling it 'pro-Joe Biden.' Yet that's where he built his empire.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump's attorney argued the former president can't get a fair trial in Manhattan. Donald Trump was born in New York City, where his family built their empire. Even before he was officially charged, Trump complained that the investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was politically motivated. Donald Trump was quoted in the obituary saying he was grateful that his father focused his construction business in Brooklyn and Queens. ''It was good for me,'' a chuckling Donald Trump said, according to the Times.

☆ House GOP's attempt to shut down Alvin Bragg is unlikely to save Trump but could serve despots in training, say oversight experts
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Donald Trump's formal arraignment in Manhattan criminal court sent House Republicans into a tizzy. Stretton wondered about House Republicans' attempt to defang state prosecutors they consider to be political persecutors. "It's hard to say what overstepping bounds are any more," Davis told Insider. "When you defend somebody before you've even seen the indictment, you're kind of hitching your wagon to all the investigations," Goldberg told Insider. He also warned that spotlight-chasing House Republicans risk drowning in unfinished business at the end of the term by floating new Biden-focused inquiries "every couple of weeks."

☆ The GOP risks blowing its 2024 chances by enlisting fringe pols and pushing issues normal voters don't care about
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The New York Times reported Trump wanted to hire far-right xenophone Laura Loomer to his campaign. The potential hire shows how far the Republican Party has moved from the median voter. It's just another example of how out of touch the Republican Party has become with the average voter. The Republican Party has yet to win the popular vote in presidential elections since 2004. Should the party keep hiring oddballs and pursuing culture war issues while failing to address substantive issues affecting the country, it's unclear that will change.

☆ Stormy Daniels says Trump shouldn't go to prison over a hush money payment: 'I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But she also thinks Trump shouldn't go to prison over hush money payment-related charges. "I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration," Daniels told Piers Morgan. "I don't think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration. The crimes Trump was charged with are connected to an election-eve hush money payment of $130,000 made to Daniels in 2016 by Trump's former fixer and personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. The appeals court ruling was not legally connected to the charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney last week.

☆ Trump's team is way more worried about the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case and the Georgia elections investigation, Maggie Haberman says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump and his aides are far more concerned about the Georgia elections probe and the Mar-a-Lago case. She added that his aides are privately worried about the Mar-a-Lago case, which is "clearer-cut." "Some of his aides are very worried about the documents investigation that the Justice Department has," Haberman said. She added that the Mar-a-Lago case is a "clearer-cut issue" in comparison to the other investigations. In March, the conservative lawyer and pundit George Conway told Insider that of the cases Trump faces, he's most likely to face prison time over the Mar-a-Lago documents case.

☆ Democrats are betting Republicans' defense of Donald Trump's criminal charges will age like milk on the 2024 campaign trail
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Republicans facing tough 2024 races are defending Donald Trump against criminal charges. Democrats are betting their defense of Trump will hurt them in competitive 2024 races. Lauren Boebert (@RepBoebert) April 4, 2023Boebert is on House Democrats' list of 31 vulnerable Republicans and two competitive open seats that they are targeting to take back control of the House in 2024. Biden hasn't commented on Trump's charges, and Democrats in Congress are treading carefully. Democrats shouldn't get ahead of the judicial process, said Rodell Mollineau, a cofounder and partner at Rokk Solutions in Washington, DC.

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