House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is continuing his quest to involve himself in Trump’s legal affairs, using his authority as a House chair to protect Trump and performatively investigate the investigators. In a new court filing, his legal team asserted that he has the right to undermine the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation.
This is rich coming from the corrupt pedo who refused the Jan 6. Committee’s subpoena.
I don’t think so Jim. You don’t get to tell states what to do in cases like this.
It always works out so well when a corrupt idiot gets hold of a microphone.
The Speech & Debate clause is not an excuse for criminal behavior, and interfering in a judicial process the way they are trying is definitely in that realm. And, considering how Jordan and other Republicans ignored Congressional subpoenas, it’s really irritating that they think they can force someone to testify in front of them in an effort to save Trump’s ass. As usual, Republicans think that they can do whatever they want and limits on power only apply when Democrats are in charge. I really hope they get a judge who tells them that they aren’t allowed to interfere in a court case like this.
The one good thing here is that they are just proving that Trump is still in control of the Republican party…that’s good news for Democrats, because fealty to Trump is driving them into the crazy right wing sphere and they are going to continue to lose elections as they go down that road. Hopefully this avoids them getting the government back by elections…when they finally try violence it won’t work out so well for them.
They also argued that the Clause bars any inquiry into “the motivation for [legislative] acts,” so protections granted by it aren’t evaded by claims that a legislator “acted unlawfully or with an unworthy purpose.”
So, since the Speech or Debate clause says critters “shall not be questioned in any other place” for speech they do in the House, therefore they are permitted to ask any question of anyone?
Hoo boy, this is one for #badlegaltakes. Fortunately, while Judge Vyskocil is a TFG appointee, she is no dumbass and unlikely to pull a Cannon.
True to form, no straw shall remain ungrasped in Trump’s efforts to evade accountability. And it doesn’t matter how flimsy or weak the straw actually is, it must be grasped nonetheless.
So, Jordan is claiming he’s free to say he’s going to subpoena Bragg? Performative angertainment at its finest.
It is one finger on the scale for wishing Trump a long (and happy?) life. So long as he remains breathing and maintains a certain threshold of cogency, he’s an anchor around the neck of the GOP.
Remember when Republicans pretended to be small-government, States’ Rights people?
Yeah, it was always selective and situational hypocrisy.
Deposing his communiqués with Trump will sink him pronto.
I’m sure Jordan was within his right not to report the sexual abuse he knew about as a wrestling coach too. Yeah right. Bragg should tell him he will honor the subpoena when Jordan honors his.
The “checks and balances” between the three branches of our government, as reinterpreted by the contemporary Trumpublican Partei:
The Speech or Debate clause means that congresscritters get to do anything they want, without judicial review … if they’re Trumpublicans.
Article 2 of the Constitution means that the President gets to do whatever he wants, and it is by definition not a crime … if it’s a Trumpublican.
Six votes on SCOTUS and a Federal bench stacked high with Trumpy judges means that “judicial activism” and “legislating from the bench” are awesome … if they’re Trumpublicans.
As the former Party of Lincoln chisels a few asterisks into the stone.
“campaign of intimidation”
Whitewater.
Ken Starr appointed in 1994.
Final report in 2000.
“This office determined that the evidence was insufficient to prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that either President or Mrs. Clinton knowingly participated in any criminal conduct.”
Gym is a loud-mouthed, morally-bankrupt dumb-ass.
I suspect his recent spate of performative BS is the product of the fear that his butt will soon be in the wringer.
Hasn’t Lincoln been identified as a traitor to “original intent” and purged from the Party he won in?
The first observation I have as a corporate lawyer and CPA is it seems to be that what Jordan and Republicans are saying is that falsifying business records should not be a prosecutable crime.
But even more serious than that, Jordan and Republicans are telling their supporters not to trust the judicial system when it is they who are charged with a crime and that basically their should be two sets of laws, one for them and another for everyone else.
I’m willing to settle for his “time in the barrel.”
And what part of the insurrection did Jordan discuss with Trump on 1/6?
What the hell is wrong with the people in Ohio’s 4th District?
Wow, I guess life must be going pretty well for Mr. Jordan to have this be his full-time obsession. I’d have thought other more pressing issues would occupy his time, but I guess not. Fascism can do that to a person.