{"id":56683,"date":"2023-04-10T12:42:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T19:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56683"},"modified":"2023-04-11T00:36:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T07:36:14","slug":"jim-jordans-judiciary-committee-to-hold-phony-hearing-in-new-york-to-smear-manhattan-da-bragg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56683","title":{"rendered":"Jim Jordan&#8217;s Judiciary Committee to Hold Phony Hearing in New York to Smear Manhattan DA Bragg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party has always been a fount of ironic hypocrisy. Their wild claims and accusations against Democrats are, more often than not, condemnations of offenses that they are far more guilty of engaging in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Jim Jordan's Judiciary Committee to Hold Phony Hearing in New York to Smear Manhattan DA Bragg%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56683\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Repub\/jim-jordan-blind.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Jordan\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51672\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An outstanding example of this was provided by GOP House Judiciary Committee chair, Jim Jordan, who has targeted Democrats with subpoenas despite <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56003\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">having refused to comply with those that were issued for him<\/a><\/strong>. He also formed a subcommittee on the <em>&#8220;Weaponization of the Federal Government&#8221;<\/em> whose sole purpose was to weaponize his congressional power to attack Democrats and run cover for Donald Trump. The GOP also created the absurd <em>&#8220;Anti-Woke Caucus&#8221;<\/em> to pursue whatever the heck they think that means.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56036\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GOP Creates an \u2018Anti-Woke\u2019 Caucus to Take on the \u2018Greatest Domestic Threat to America Today\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Continuing in that tradition of legislative tantrum throwing, Jordan has just announced that his Judiciary Committee will soon take its show on the road to hold a hearing in New York that he says will&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;examine how Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s pro-crime, anti-victim policies have led to an increase in violent crime and a dangerous community for New York City residents.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0ac75MLdO6\">pic.twitter.com\/0ac75MLdO6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudiciaryGOP\/status\/1645404735510282241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jordan isn&#8217;t fooling anyone with his references to crime. There is no question that Jordan is staging this hearing as a purely political retaliation following the 34 felony count indictment of Trump by a Manhattan Grand Jury. Jordan (and Trump and the rest of the GOP political and media confederacy) blame District Attorney Alvin Bragg for Trump&#8217;s tribulations, rather than the fact that Trump is a recidivist criminal who is acting out his mob boss fantasies.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no coincidence that Jordan&#8217;s alleged <em>&#8220;crime&#8221;<\/em> hearing was announced less than a week after Trump&#8217;s indictment. Jordan has been maligning Bragg ever since for what he calls an <em>&#8220;unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority,&#8221;<\/em> and has demanded that Bragg testify before Congress. Jordan is apparently unaware that he has no authority over a local district attorney. In fact, he is potentially violating New York state law by making such harassing and intimidating efforts to interfere with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Jordan&#8217;s feeble allegations that <em>&#8220;Bragg\u2019s pro-crime, anti-victim policies have led to an increase in violent crime,&#8221;<\/em> are flagrantly false. The truth is that crime has decreased during Bragg&#8217;s tenure as D.A. According to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2023\/03\/03\/nypd-february-2023-crime-statistics\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent data from law enforcement<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Statistics from the NYPD show a decrease in almost all major crimes in February compared with 2022, including a 15% drop in shootings. New numbers from the department show an overall crime decrease of 5.6% year over year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those numbers include a 27.8% decrease in murders, 22.1% decrease in rapes, and 15% decrease in burglaries. Although there were some increases in criminal activity outside of Bragg&#8217;s jurisdiction, It was reported that in the Republican stronghold of Staten Island crime is up 11.2%. So why isn&#8217;t Jordan going there?<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, Jordan has also been demonstrating Republican hypocrisy with recent promises to defund the police, a policy that the GOP likes to pretend is on the Democratic agenda. But Jordan said, <em>&#8220;We\u2019re going to have to look at the appropriations process and limit funds going to [the DOJ and the FBI].&#8221;<\/em> This is unambiguously political and intended to punish these agencies for any role they might have had in bringing Trump to justice.<\/p>\n<p>However, such budget cuts would also hamper law enforcement efforts to combat serious crimes such as terrorism, drug trafficking, financial corruption, civil rights abuse, election fraud, and many other federal crimes. So the question is: Why do Republicans hate the police? It could be said that they are the ones who are truly <em>&#8220;pro-crime and anti-victim.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56638\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Jordan Tells Fox News that He\u2019ll Explore Defunding the Police Due to the Trump Indictment<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/newsie.social\/@NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mastodon<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party has always been a fount of ironic hypocrisy. Their wild claims and accusations against Democrats are, more often than not, condemnations of offenses that they are far more guilty of engaging in. Click here to Tweet this article An outstanding example of this was provided by GOP House Judiciary Committee chair, Jim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1475,1,1200,8],"tags":[1489,1215,67,554,1323,301],"class_list":["post-56683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-alvin-bragg","tag-congress","tag-crime","tag-donald-trump","tag-jim-jordan","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/jim-jordan-blind.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-eKf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56894,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56894","url_meta":{"origin":56683,"position":0},"title":"Former NY Prosecutor Righteously Rejects GOP House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s Political Theater","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/12\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The Republican majority in the House of Representatives has made it their mission to malign and disparage President Biden above all other political or legislative considerations. 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