曼哈顿地区检察官阿尔文·布拉格(Alvin Bragg)周二起诉共和党众议员吉姆·乔丹(Jim Jordan)，称其为“国会议员前所未有的厚颜无耻和违宪的攻击”
这份长达50页的诉讼称，乔丹已经发起了一场“透明的运动来恐吓和攻击”布拉格历史性的控诉前总统唐纳德·特朗普。
特朗普一再否认对他的指控，他上周被传讯，并对涉嫌影响2016年的封口费“计划”中伪造商业记录的34项一级重罪不认罪选举。
乔丹是特朗普在国会山最大的支持者之一，他与其他有影响力的众议院委员会的共和党主席一起领导了对布拉格的指控。两位主席上个月要求布拉格调查特朗普的相关文件以及地区检察官本人的证词。
上周，乔丹传唤马克·波梅兰茨提供与他在调查特朗普和特朗普的企业中的作用有关的证词。Pomerantz是曼哈顿地区检察官办公室的前检察官，去年辞职，原因是布拉格当时不愿意继续起诉特朗普。
布拉格的诉讼试图阻止传票的执行，认为“联邦主义和常识的基本原则，以及具有约束力的最高法院先例，禁止国会要求它。”
“国会无权监督各州的刑事诉讼。国会也没有权力为调查人员的个人扩张发出传票或惩罚那些被调查的人，”诉讼称。"然而，这正是乔丹主席正在努力做的."
该诉讼指控约旦和众议院共和党人“参与了一场恐吓、报复和阻挠的运动”，并指出特朗普如何“用暴力和种族主义的刻薄话威胁纽约州官员”
布拉格和乔丹之间的紧张交锋周一仍在继续，众议院共和党人宣布计划在布拉格的后院举行一次关于纽约市犯罪的听证会。
由乔丹担任主席的众议院司法委员会将于4月17日在纽约市举行实地听证会，讨论“曼哈顿暴力犯罪的受害者”。在那里，立法者将审查委员会所说的布拉格的“支持犯罪的政策”,这些政策导致了居民的“危险社区”新闻稿周一晚上发布。
布拉格办公室的发言人很快回击:“别被骗了，众议院共和党要来美国最安全的大城市搞政治噱头。这场听证会不会涉及增加公共安全的实际努力，如支持国家枪支立法和关闭钢铁管道。”
这位发言人还说，纽约市的谋杀率比俄亥俄州哥伦布市的谋杀率“低近三倍”。
这些数据似乎来自伊利诺伊州的非营利组织Wirepoints找到根据2022年公开的凶杀数据，纽约市每10万人中有5.2起凶杀案，而哥伦布每10万人中有15.4起凶杀案。
纽约警察局最近公布，今年前三个月暴力犯罪有所下降，与去年同期相比，第一季度枪击案下降了23%，凶杀案下降了12.7%宣布的。
“如果乔丹主席真的关心公共安全，他可以开车去他家乡的哥伦布、代顿、辛辛那提、克利夫兰、阿克伦或托莱多，而不是用纳税人的钱跑几百英里，”布拉格的发言人说。
布拉格的诉讼提出后不久，乔丹发微博首先，他们指控总统没有犯罪。然后，当我们询问他们所说的联邦基金时，他们起诉阻止国会监督。”
Manhattan DA sues GOP's Jim Jordan as feud escalates over Trump's prosecution
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday sued Republican Rep. Jim Jordan for what he called an "unprecedentedly brazen and unconstitutional attack by members of Congress."
The 50-page lawsuit alleges Jordan has launched a "transparent campaign to intimidate and attack" on Bragg amid thehistoric indictmentof former PresidentDonald Trump.
Trump, who has repeatedly denied the charges against him, was arraigned last week and pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in an alleged hush money "scheme" to influence the 2016election.
Jordan, one of Trump's biggest supporters on Capitol Hill, has led the charge against Bragg along with other GOP chairs of influential House committees. The chairmen last month demanded documents related to Bragg's investigation of Trump and testimony from the district attorney himself.
Last week, Jordansubpoenaed Mark Pomerantzto give deposition related to his role in investigating Trump and Trump's businesses. Pomerantz is a former prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney's office who resigned last year over Bragg's reluctance at the time to pursue the case against Trump.
Bragg's lawsuit seeks to stop the enforcement of the subpoena, arguing "basic principles of federalism and common sense, as well as binding Supreme Court precedent, forbids Congress from demanding it."
"Congress has no power to supervise state criminal prosecutions. Nor does Congress have the power to serve subpoenas for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to punish those investigated," the lawsuit said. "Yet that is precisely what Chairman Jordan is trying to do."
The lawsuit accused Jordan and the House Republicans of “participating in a campaign of intimidation, retaliation, and obstruction" and noted how Trump “has threatened New York officials with violent and racist vitriol.”
The tense back-and-forth between Bragg and Jordan had continued Monday as House Republicans announced plans to hold a hearing on New York City crime in Bragg's backyard.
Rep. Jim Jordan, left, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg are seen in this split photo
Left: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster; Right: Kena Betancur/Getty Images
The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Jordan, will hold a field hearing on April 17 in New York City to discuss "victims of violent crime in Manhattan." There, lawmakers will examine what the committee called Bragg's "pro-crime policies" that have led to a "dangerous community" for residents, according to apress releaseissued on Monday night.
A spokesperson for Bragg's office quicklyshot back: "Don't be fooled, the House GOP is coming to the safest big city in America for a political stunt. This hearing won't engage actual efforts to increase public safety, such as supporting national gun legislation and shutting down the iron pipeline."
The spokesperson also said New York City had a murder rate "nearly three times lower" than that of Columbus, Ohio -- Jordan's home turf.
That data appeared to be pulled from Wirepoints, an Illinois- based nonprofit, whichfoundNew York City had 5.2 homicides per 100,000 people compared with Columbus' 15.4 homicides per 100,000 residents using publicly available homicide data for 2022.
Violent crime decreased during the first three months of this year, with shootings falling by 23% and homicides falling by 12.7% in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, the New York Police Department recentlyannounced.
"If Chairman Jordan truly cared about public safety, he could take a short drive to Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Akron, or Toledo in his home state, instead of using taxpayer dollars to travel hundreds of miles out of his way," the spokesperson for Bragg said.
Not long after Bragg's lawsuit was filed, Jordantweeted, "First, they indict a president for no crime. Then, they sue to block congressional oversight when we ask questions about the federal funds they say they used to do it."
