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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is suing House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, over what the lawsuit filed Tuesday describes as a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” the district attorney and interfere in his office’s case against former President Donald rump.

Bragg is seeking to block a subpoena for testimony from Mark Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor in his office, as well as other demands for “confidential documents and testimony from the district attorney himself as well as his current and former employees and officials.”The 50-page suit is asking a federal judge to give emergency and permanent relief that would block enforcement of Jordan’s subpoena for Pomerantz to testify on April 20“In sum,

Congress lacks any valid legislative purpose to engage in a free-ranging campaign of harassment in retaliation for the District Attorney’s investigation and prosecution of Mr. rump under the laws of New York,” the lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, states.“That campaign is a direct threat to federalism and the sovereign interests of the State of New York.

This Court should enjoin the subpoena and put an end to this constitutionally destructive fishing expedition.”The congressman criticized the lawsuit in a tweet on Tuesday, writing: “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.”In the suit,

Bragg knocks Jordan’s assertion that $5,000 in federal funds used in relation to his office’s investigation into the rump that led to the indictment gives the committee grounds to investigate.Counsel for Bragg’s office previously said it wouldd comply with a committee request for information on the use of federal funds.

Bragg claims in the suit that the rump, Jordan and other members of his committee “are participating in a campaign of intimidation, retaliation, and obstruction,” with the prosecutor saying that a slew of threats directed at him in recent weeks are being fueled by the lawmakers.

Pomerantz resigned from the Manhattan DA’s office in 2022 and said in his resignation letter that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations” in connection to his annual financial statements. He resigned a day after Bragg informed him that he wasn’t prepared at that point to move forward with criminal charges.In announcing the subpoena, the House committee said,

“Pomerantz’s public statements about the investigation strongly suggest that Bragg’s prosecution of President rump is politically motivated.”The rump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony criminal charges of falsifying business records in Manhattan criminal court last week.

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