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FORMER PROSECUTORS SIGN LETTER CONDEMNING RHETORIC AGAINST DA BRAGG

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BRAGG’S OFFICE WARNS GOP ABOUT ‘UNLAWFUL POLITICAL INTERFERENCE’

For the first time, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office has warned
congressional Republicans about their possible "unlawful political
interference."
March 31, 2023, 3:13 PM UTC

By Steve Benen

Donald Trump’s campaign against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been
aggressive, even by the Republican’s standards. The former president last week
called the prosecutor “a degenerate psychopath that truely [sic] hates the USA.”
Soon after, Trump said Bragg is “doing the work of Anarchists and the Devil.”

Subtle, it was not.




The New York Times reported that the former president, behind the scenes, hoped
that the over-the-top attacks “might persuade” Bragg “to walk away from the
case.” In other words, Trump thought he might be able to bully the district
attorney into submission. He learned otherwise late yesterday afternoon.



But it wasn’t just Trump. At House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s urging, three
powerful House GOP chairs — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of
Ohio, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky, and House
Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil of Wisconsin — wrote to Bragg last
week, seeking, among other things, his congressional testimony.

As we discussed soon after, it was a difficult move to defend, especially with
grand jury proceedings underway. There was simply no sensible justification for
congressional leaders interfering with the case. Jordan, Comer, and Steil did it
anyway. (They also sought information from former prosecutors who worked with
Bragg.)

The general counsel for the Manhattan DA’s office wrote back to the GOP
congressmen, denounced their request, and effectively told them to pound sand.
That led the trio to send another missive, demanding that Bragg explain himself.


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The district attorney’s office wasn’t impressed. NBC News reported this morning:

> The Manhattan district attorney’s office said in a new letter to several GOP
> committee chairmen Friday that it will not submit to any requests that
> “interfere” with the office’s Trump investigation. “Like any other defendant,
> Mr. Trump is entitled to challenge these charges in court and avail himself of
> all processes and protections that New York State’s robust criminal procedure
> affords,” the office’s general counsel, Leslie Dubeck, wrote about the Trump
> indictment. “What neither Mr. Trump nor Congress may do is interfere with the
> ordinary course of proceedings in New York State.”

After reminding the congressmen that they still don’t have the authority to
interfere in a criminal prosecution at the state level, and noting that they
could use their positions to encourage Americans to trust the integrity of the
judicial system, Dubeck added a rather pointed paragraph.

“Instead, you and many of your colleagues have chosen to collaborate with Mr.
Trump’s efforts to vilify and denigrate the integrity of elected state
prosecutors and trial judges and made unfounded allegations that the Office’s
investigation ... is politically motivated,” she wrote. “We urge you to refrain
from these inflammatory accusations, withdraw your demand for information, and
let the criminal justice process proceed without unlawful political
interference.”

This was, as best as I can tell, the first time Bragg’s office has raised the
prospect of Trump partisans possibly engaging in “unlawful political
interference.”



I won’t pretend to know how Jordan, Comer, and Steil will respond to the latest
correspondence, but it’s likely that they’ll soon have a conversation about
whether to subpoena the New York prosecutor. That would be absurd, but that
doesn’t mean it won’t happen.


Steve Benen

Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog
and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "The
Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics."

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