The House Judiciary Committee recently Fox News Digital The lawsuit claims Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Marchan “violated” former President Donald Trump’s “constitutional and legal rights” in his New York criminal trial.
In May, a Manhattan jury found the former president guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records that Bragg had sued against him.
“He never had a chance for a fair trial.”
Before the guilty verdict, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland questioning Bragg’s appointment of former Justice Department official Matthew Colangelo as one of the lead prosecutors in the case, arguing that the appointment “creates the appearance that the Department of Justice is supporting the ‘political prosecution’ of a former president.”
While the House Judiciary Committee’s investigation into the New York state case against President Trump is still ongoing, the committee released a report on Tuesday titled “Loafer: How the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and a New York State Judge Violated the Constitutional and Legal Rights of President Donald J. Trump,” examining “loafer tactics” and a “two-tiered judicial system.”
“Bragg’s prosecution of President Trump was politically motivated, unethical and likely illegal, focused on only one person, and ‘paved the way for future prosecutions of former presidents and sitting candidates that would be widely perceived as politically motivated,'” the report said.
The committee heard testimony in June that showed Bragg’s case was “riddled with legal and procedural flaws,” according to the report.
“A fundamental principle of the American justice system is that no individual is above the law. But just as important is the principle that prosecutors prosecute conduct, not individuals. Yet Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg ran for office on a promise to investigate and prosecute President Trump, and boasted about his extensive experience suing him,” the report continued. “Bragg was initially hesitant to prosecute once he became district attorney, but he faced intense political pressure to do so, including the leaking of the resignation letter of a special assistant district attorney who accused Bragg of being too timid.”
The committee accused Bragg of “employing an unconstitutional and unprecedented Russian nesting doll theory of criminal liability, which did not require a jury to reach a unanimous determination beyond a reasonable doubt of each element of criminal conduct.”
They further argued that Trump “never had a real chance at a fair trial in Manhattan,” adding that the area “was never a neutral jurisdiction.”
“While the Committee and the Select Subcommittee’s oversight work is not yet complete, this interim report presents the facts about how the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and a Manhattan judge worked together to strip President Donald J. Trump of his constitutional and legal rights,” the report added.
The committee said the case had numerous flaws and that “the New York Court of Appeals should overturn the verdict.”
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