Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had requested to block a subpoena by Jordan for the House Judiciary Committee’s investigation of Bragg’s office.
A federal judge appointed by former President Donald Trump has denied Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s request to block a House Judiciary Committee subpoena of former Manhattan prosecutor Mark Pomerantz.
Bragg brought a temporary restraining order against Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan last week as an attempt to halt the subpoena, saying the panel’s request was an « unconstitutional attack by members of Congress. »
The subpoena is part of Jordan’s oversight into the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Prior to resigning in February 2022, Pomerantz lead the probe into the office’s investigation of Trump’s finances that ultimately led to the former president’s 34 felony counts accusing him of falsifying business records during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Bragg brought the charges against the former president this month, accusing Trump of attempting to conceal « hush money » payments made by his former attorney, Michael Cohen. Jordan has argued that Bragg’s prosecution of Trump is an « unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority. »
U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil wrote in her opinion Wednesday that Jordan’s subpoena of Pomerantz was « a ‘valid legislative purpose’ in connection with the ‘broad’ and ‘indispensable’ congressional power to ‘conduct investigations.
