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Before any potential indictment against former President Donald Trump could even be released by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Republicans in the House went on the offensive, with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) blasting the investigation as "political," and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and others demanding Bragg testify in their committees without even knowing what his charges are or the evidence behind them. The move has led Democrats and legal experts to accuse the GOP of intimidation tactics against prosecutors.
But if that is their intent, they are unlikely to succeed, said former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" on Tuesday.
"Joyce, you probably know this better than any one of us, if you take Kevin McCarthy's statement, if you look at Rand Paul saying the D.A. should be in jail, if you take a look at some of the other comments, the former president's own comments to protesters, would that reach the threshold of intimidation?" asked anchor Ayman Mohyeldin. "How do you think Alvin Bragg has been handling this? It would seem to me, as an outsider, that this does feel like they are trying to intimidate him."
"Well, they're trying, but I doubt that Alvin Bragg, who has a lot of prosecutorial experience under his belt, feels particularly intimidated," said Vance. "And the reality is that if Jim Jordan or Kevin McCarthy or Rand Paul want to set prosecutorial priorities for the Manhattan's D.A.'s office, they should move to Manhattan and run for office, and when they're the district attorney, they can decide what cases get indicted."
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Unless that ever happens, Vance continued, "it's up for voters in Manhattan to decide whether they think Bragg is doing a good job," and not Republican members of Congress.
"Congress has no business and ... this violates federalism principles," said Vance. "Congress has no reason to try to engage in oversight of the duly elected district attorney in a state. They have no authority. Bragg knows that, and I suspect that he will, you know, just let this one roll off his back and watch them make constitutional fools of themselves."
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Fox News is tamping down its effort to silence a Tucker Carlson producer who is currently suing the network, reversing a complaint they filed with the Supreme Court of New York this week, the Daily Beast reported.
Abby Grossberg, who was head of booking for for Tucker Carlson's show, filed two separate lawsuits against Fox on Monday alleging that the network wanted to have her and her former boss Maria Bartiromo shoulder the blame for Dominion Voting System's $1.6-billion Dominion defamation suit.
Grossberg was reportedly put on forced administrative leave this Monday. She claims the network's lawyers forced her to make misleading testimony about Fox's election coverage in 2020 and it was an example of the network's culture of misogyny and discrimination.
As the Beast's report points out, Fox initially claimed her legal action “threatened to disclose Fox’s attorney-client privileged information."
“FOX News Media engaged an independent outside counsel to immediately investigate the concerns raised by Ms. Grossberg, which were made following a critical performance review, and her allegations in connection with the Dominion case are baseless,” a Fox News spokesperson said in a statement. “We are confident her legal claims have no merit and FOX News will prevail in these cases.”
But on Tuesday, Fox retracted its complaint.
“While our office was fully prepared and ready to argue to the New York Supreme Court why Fox News’s baseless and retaliatory lawsuit seeking to restrain Ms. Grossberg from speaking out about her abhorrent experiences at the Network was frivolous, Fox News wisely decided to give up on its clearly meritless claims against Ms. Grossberg," her lawyers said in a statement to the Daily Beast. "We remain ready and eager to vindicate Fox News’s blatant and repeated violation of Ms. Grossberg’s rights, including her right to not be baselessly sued in retaliation for complaining about unlawful conduct, in the Southern District of New York and in Delaware Superior Court.”
Read the full report over at the Daily Beast.
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Minutes before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron was to gavel in late Tuesday morning, a bomb threat was called in to 911, delaying a pre-trial hearing in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump and his adult children, but only for about 30 minutes.
Over the weekend Trump urged his supporters to “protest,” and “take our country back.” He also claimed he would be indicted on Tuesday. It’s not known who called in the bomb threat, but it wasn’t the delay Trump’s attorneys were hoping for.
Once the hearing began, Trump’s attorneys asked the judge for a six-month delay, Law & Crime reports.
They were denied.
They then asked for a delay of a few weeks.
They were denied again.
“I don’t want to move this trial, not only because I said I don’t want to move it,” Justice Engoron said.
“That’s written in stone,” he added.
“This case is complex, but it’s not complicated,” Engoron explained. “It all boils down to whether the statements of financial condition are true, and the rest as Rabbi Hillel famously said, is all commentary.”
After the hearing ended Trump called for Congress to investigate Attorney General James.
“While Congress is at it, they should look at the Corrupt Attorney General of New York State, Letitia James, who got elected solely on a ‘I WILL GET TRUMP’ platform, without knowing anything about me,” Trump alleged on his Truth Social platform.
“She then brought a completely bogus lawsuit, which is presided over by an A.G. picked, Trump hating Judge, a political hack whose Court this case should not be in – It shoud [sic] be in the Commercial Division, but he wouldn’t let go, is pushing it hard, and knows exactly what he wants to do….”
As Law & Crime notes, Attorney General James “alleges that Trump, his children and his businesses have a pattern of wildly inflating or deflating their assets to reap tax benefits. She claims that Trump estimates the size of his Trump Towers triplex at three times its actual square footage. Trump Organization also valued rent-stabilized units more than 66 times higher than an outside appraiser, she says. These discrepancies and others, she says, warrant her massive proposed civil penalty.”
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