Jordan's push for Bragg's testimony on Trump probe is 'unprecedented,' advisor to Manhattan DA says

A propulsion from House Republicans to get Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to attest astir his probe and expected indictment of erstwhile President Donald Trump is "unprecedented," an advisor to Bragg told GOP lawmakers Thursday.

The Manhattan DA's wide counsel, Leslie Dubeck, offered a scathing response to GOP lawmakers successful a missive addressed to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky. and House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wisc. She called their petition "an unprecedent enquiry into a pending section prosecution" that lone came astir aft Trump "created a mendacious expectation" that helium would beryllium arrested Tuesday.

The archetypal missive from the 3 House Republicans connected Monday requested grounds and documents from Bragg astir the expected indictment of Trump successful a lawsuit related to a hush-money outgo his ex-fixer Michael Cohen made to big movie prima Stormy Daniels connected the eve of the 2016 election. Trump was not arrested connected Tuesday, and the expansive assemblage deciding the erstwhile president's destiny whitethorn not determine whether to indict him until adjacent week, according to NBC New York.

In responding to Republicans, Dubeck questioned legislature authorization to look into Bragg's investigation.

"Congress is not the due subdivision to reappraisal pending transgression matters," Dubeck said successful the missive to Jordan and the 2 different House Republicans dated Thursday.

She aboriginal continued: "The Letter's requests are an unlawful incursion into New York's sovereignty. Congress's investigative jurisdiction is derived from and constricted by its powerfulness to legislate concerning national matters."

Dubeck appeared to concede to astatine slightest 1 of the the Republicans asks connected whether immoderate national funds were utilized successful the probe into Trump and the 2016 payoff to Stormy Daniels.

"To assistance Congress successful knowing the ways successful which the DA's Office has utilized national funds, we are preparing and volition taxable a missive describing its usage of national fund," Dubeck said.

She aboriginal added: "We petition a conscionable and confer to recognize whether the Committee has immoderate morganatic legislative intent successful the requested materials that could beryllium accommodated without impeding those sovereign interests.

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