Jim Jordan's sordid attack on possible Trump charges demands an answer

[Zorro]

If and when Donald Trump faces criminal charges, it will thrust the country into a new type of political war over an unprecedented situation, and Republicans are already rising to the occasion. They’re signaling a willingness to deploy the full levers of their power in sordid but novel ways, to paint any prosecution as the stuff of banana republics.

Democrats will have to marshal some serious creativity in response. The extraordinary move by House Republicans to insert themselves into Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation of Trump provides Democrats with an opening to do just that.

This week, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other top Republicans sent a letter to Bragg demanding documents and testimony related to expectations that Bragg might charge Trump over a hush-money payment to a porn actress in 2016. The letter declared this an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority,” even though no charges have been filed.

But it’s not clear that Jordan, the Judiciary Committee chair, has thought this through. The course of action signaled by the letter — also signed by Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) — could go sideways for Republicans in unforeseen ways.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/22/jim-jordan-alvin-bragg-trump-indictment-possible/

[Quakerfriend]

1. Obstruction of justice could be

in their futures…..

[dutch777]

3. Yep! Depending on how the Repugs go about it, shouldn't be hard to make the case.

And given how ham handed they are...

[TeamProg]

4. +1. Not in their jurisdiction. nt

[Walleye]

2. It's bizarre that they aren't even waiting for an indictment to be handed down

I think Liz Cheney said something like, these are not serious people

[Emile]

6. First Gym Jordan accused Democrats are weak on crime, now . . .

[MayReasonRule]

7. "If and when there is an indictment..." it would "show the justice process is working..."

“If and when there is an indictment, we will be able to reconstruct all the facts of this case in a way that makes sense to the American public,” Raskin said. The aim, he noted, would be to “show the justice process is working, and there is no call for extraordinary intervention by the U.S. Congress.”

Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that last month, one of Trump’s lawyers personally prodded Jordan to investigate any coming prosecution.