Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has kept his cool as Republicans have ramped up their pressure campaign against him. For weeks now, his office has been engaged in a back-and-forth with the House Judiciary Committee over the committee's demand for documents and testimony related to his prosecution of former President Donald Trump. But now it's clear that Bragg is done playing nice, and he is asking the courts to end this farce.
Even before a grand jury voted to indict Trump, Republicans warned Bragg that he'd regret what they deemed a "politically motivated prosecutorial decision." Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is leading that charge from his perch atop the Judiciary Committee. It's clear that Jordan, one of Trump's top allies in Congress, and other members of the House GOP are trying to influence the outcome of the trial — or at the very least ensure Bragg will pay a political cost for it.
The very public nature of the "investigation" into the Manhattan DA's investigation, though, provided ample fodder for a federal lawsuit Bragg filed in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday.
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